What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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