"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."

Freedom, Virtue, Ambition, Dependence, Tools

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"When you write by hand, you don't have the excessive freedom of a computer. When I write down something, I have to be serious about it. I have to ask myself, "Is this necessary at this point in the book?"

Pat Conroy, American Writer

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"The knowledge of God gives a person the opportunity to not be a slave to wealth."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Freedom, God, Knowledge, Wealth

"The true measure of a nation's freedom is its ability to protect the liberties of its citizens."

Sardar Patel, Indian Statesman

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"When we try to control, we become controlled; when we release, we become free."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"You can be your own boss."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Freedom, Entrepreneurship, SelfEmployment, Independence, Growth

"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Freedom, Censorship, Past, Praise

"If we preach God, it means we preach light. Consequently we preach freedom from ignorance."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Freedom, Preaching, God, Light

"Freedom is a terrible gift, and the theory behind all dictatorships is that "the people" do no want freedom."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

Freedom, Dictatorship, People, Gift

"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it."

John Stuart Mill, English Philosopher

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"Only God's principles and not fame and money can make a person truly free."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan."

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"If you serve humanity, you serve humanity's God."

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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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"All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollection of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them."

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"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none."

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"Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia."

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"A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character."

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"When you write by hand, you don't have the excessive freedom of a computer. When I write down something, I have to be serious about it. I have to ask myself, "Is this necessary at this point in the book?"

"The knowledge of God gives a person the opportunity to not be a slave to wealth."

"The true measure of a nation's freedom is its ability to protect the liberties of its citizens."

"When we try to control, we become controlled; when we release, we become free."

"You can be your own boss."

"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship."

"If we preach God, it means we preach light. Consequently we preach freedom from ignorance."

"Freedom is a terrible gift, and the theory behind all dictatorships is that "the people" do no want freedom."

"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it."

"Only God's principles and not fame and money can make a person truly free."

Explore more quotes by Thomas Jefferson

"It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan."

"If you serve humanity, you serve humanity's God."

"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time."

"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none."

"Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government."

"Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man."

"Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people."

"Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia."

"A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character."