How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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I cannot live without books.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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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.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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