Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhenever 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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I cannot live without books.
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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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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