Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIgnorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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