I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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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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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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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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