Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHe who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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