Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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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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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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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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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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