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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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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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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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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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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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