There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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 only security of all is in a free press.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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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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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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