A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDetermine 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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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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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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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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