Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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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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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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We never repent of having eat too little.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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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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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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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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