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

Thomas Jefferson

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Control Liberty People Power Safe Society
I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

DAngry Deep Freedom One Liner Peace Slavery
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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Death Liberty Machine Man Struggle
I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Alone One Liner Reflect Solitude Thinking Travel
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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Deep Intelligence Silence Talent Value Writing
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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Deep Education Insult Man Newspaper Reading
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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God Government Injury Neighbor Power Religion
A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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Business Deal Great Love
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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Body Enlight Mind People Spirit
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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Ambition Design Freedom Independence Virtue
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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Affair Expectation Government Individual Law Politics
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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Advantage Difference Each Other Opinion Religion
Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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Courtesy Hurt One Liner Respect Trouble Yourself
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Economy Liberty Politics Sea Wave
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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Animal Experience Man Poor Prey Rich
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Dreamss Future History Inspirational One Liner Past

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

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