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 JEFFERSONThe 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
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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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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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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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