Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTimid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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