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.

Quote by Thomas Jefferson

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It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

If government have a right of demanding ad libitum and of taxing us themselves to...

If government have a right of demanding ad libitum and of taxing us themselves to...

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt...

I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt...

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous...

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous...

Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the...

Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the...

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers...

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers...

If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise...

If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise...

Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them.

Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them.

The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do.

The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do.

We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal...

We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal...

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

Those who sacrifice freedom for safety deserve neither.

Those who sacrifice freedom for safety deserve neither.

Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but...

Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but...

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel...

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel...

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.