The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIf you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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