The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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The dead should not rule the living.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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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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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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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 prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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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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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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