Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever trouble another with what you can do yourself.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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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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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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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