The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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I cannot live without books.
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