Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
THOMAS JEFFERSONAn enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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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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