Never spend your money before you have it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhen angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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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 have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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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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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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I cannot live without books.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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