When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHow much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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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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