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 JEFFERSONI am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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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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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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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 once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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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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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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I cannot live without books.
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