There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHow much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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