I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHistory, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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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 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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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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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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 most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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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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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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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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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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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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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