He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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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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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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Never spend your money before you have it.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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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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