Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThose who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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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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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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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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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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