All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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 spend your money before you have it.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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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The 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.
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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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