Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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