Take things always by their smooth handle.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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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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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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