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 JEFFERSONLet 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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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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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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