Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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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