If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
THOMAS JEFFERSONOn matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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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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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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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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