He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTake care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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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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