Take things always by their smooth handle.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNo people can be both ignorant and free.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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