Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTake things always by their smooth handle.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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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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