The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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 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 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 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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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