Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTake care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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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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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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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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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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