Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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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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The dead should not rule the living.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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