Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever spend your money before you have it.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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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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