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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.

Thomas Jefferson

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Complain Determine Inspirational Lose Occasion Time
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.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Freedom Future Government Happiness People Politics
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Business Hustle Inspirational One Liner Present Success
Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Accident Heritage History Public Time Wasted Time
The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Bank Belong People Power Restore
I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

DAngry Deep Freedom One Liner Peace Slavery
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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Himself Honesty Human Nature Lying
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.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Destructive Ending Government People Politics Right
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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Difference Friendship Opinion Philosophy Politics Religion
The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Fund Future Money Principle
If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Confidence Courage Hustle Inspirational Trust Work Hard
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Education Mind Rumors Stupidity Truth
When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Fear Government Liberty People Politics
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.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Believe Government History Ignorance People Religious
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.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Affair Expectation Government Individual Law Politics
Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Expectation Freedom Ignorant

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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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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