How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
THOMAS JEFFERSONEnlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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