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
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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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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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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