If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDetermine 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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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 whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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