Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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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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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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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