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 JEFFERSONNever spend your money before you have it.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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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