I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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I cannot live without books.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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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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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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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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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