A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhen angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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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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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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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 equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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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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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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