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 JEFFERSONHonesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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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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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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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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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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