History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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 think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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I 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.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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