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 JEFFERSONI predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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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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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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