Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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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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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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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