Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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I cannot live without books.
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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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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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