Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
THOMAS JEFFERSONBe polite to all, but intimate with few.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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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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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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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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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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