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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe only security of all is in a free press.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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 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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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
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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