There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
THOMAS JEFFERSONEnlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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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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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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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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