How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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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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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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