We never repent of having eat too little.
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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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 most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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I cannot live without books.
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