Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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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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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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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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I 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.
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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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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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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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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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