I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI cannot live without books.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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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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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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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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