Never spend your money before you have it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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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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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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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 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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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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