Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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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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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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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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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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