Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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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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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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