Never spend your money before you have it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHow little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. 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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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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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