Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThose who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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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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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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