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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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Determine 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.
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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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