quotes by Thomas Jefferson

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1673
"I cannot live without books."
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1673
"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg"
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1673
"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."
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1673
"On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock."
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1673
"Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom."
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1673
"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases."
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1673
"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."
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1673
"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."
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1673
"We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate. "
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1673
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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1673
"I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged."
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1673
""The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance." "
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1673
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
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1673
"Information is the currency of democracy."
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1673
"I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.""
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1673
"“Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear”"
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1673
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. "
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1673
"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.



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1673
"Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants."
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1673
"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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