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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONPeace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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