A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIf a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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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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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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