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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONEvery day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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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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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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