There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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