Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDifference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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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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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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