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Never spend your money before you have earned it.

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Thomas Jefferson
Age: 83 †
Born: 1743
Born: April 2
Died: 1826
Died: July 4
3Rd U.S. President
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In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
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Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
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Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.
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Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.
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The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error.
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The only true corrective of Constitutional abuses is education.
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To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or occupations will fail in attempting.
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An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.
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The private buildings [of Virginia] are very rarely constructed of stone or brick much the greatest proportion being of scantlingand boards, plastered with lime. It is impossible to devise things more ugly, uncomfortable, and happily more perishable.
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An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among general bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.
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The provisions we have made [for our government] are such as please ourselves they answer the substantial purposes of government and of justice, and other purposes than these should not be answered.
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War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.
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My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on the purest of all moral systems, for the purpose of deriving from it pence and power, revolts those who think for themselves, and who read in that system only what is really there.
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Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
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Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.
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Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker, in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle.
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[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom whichwould be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money, and if wisdom were hereditary.
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only... If [free enquiry] be restrained now, the present corruptions will be protected, and new ones encouraged.
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Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.
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