Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I 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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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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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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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