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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHe who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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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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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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.
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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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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