I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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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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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 never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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