What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
THOMAS JEFFERSONTake things always by their smooth handle.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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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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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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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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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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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