An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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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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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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I cannot live without books.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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The dead should not rule the living.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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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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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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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 am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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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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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 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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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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