I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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 issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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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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I cannot live without books.
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