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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Education Equality People Philosophy Treatment
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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Control Liberty People Power Safe Society
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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Darkness Himself Ideas Instruction Lesson Light
It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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Business Democracy Instruction Liberty Mind People
No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Freedom Ignorant One Liner Peace People
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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Animal Experience Man Poor Prey Rich
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Ambition Men Pain Truth
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Commerce Friendship Honesty Nation Peace
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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Bold Courage Fear Honesty Knowledge Truth
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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Country Government Majority Participate Politics
Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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Action Be Yourself Confidence Inspirational Positive
I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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Book Family Friendship Human Life World
Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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Depend Geometry Opinion Religious Rights Science
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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Complain Determine Inspirational Lose Occasion Time
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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Constitution Government Men Politics Scare Touch
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Courtesy Deep Inspirational One Liner Polite

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

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