Take things always by their smooth handle.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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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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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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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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