How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHow much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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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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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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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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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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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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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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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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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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