The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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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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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The dead should not rule the living.
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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.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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