Take things always by their smooth handle.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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.
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I cannot live without books.
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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