If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever spend your money before you have it.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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I cannot live without books.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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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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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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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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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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