Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONLet 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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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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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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