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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever spend your money before you have it.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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