I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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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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