There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
THOMAS JEFFERSONPeace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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