He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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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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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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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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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