Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIf you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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I cannot live without books.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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