I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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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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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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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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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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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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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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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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