Take things always by their smooth handle.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever spend your money before you have it.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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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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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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