Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHow much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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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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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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