Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
THOMAS JEFFERSONAn enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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 you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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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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We never repent of having eat too little.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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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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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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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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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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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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