But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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