Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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 cannot live without books.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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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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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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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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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