Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHonesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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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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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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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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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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