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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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