Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
THOMAS JEFFERSONNothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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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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