The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe 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
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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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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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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