The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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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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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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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 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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