To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTake things always by their smooth handle.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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 have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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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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I cannot live without books.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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