I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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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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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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I cannot live without books.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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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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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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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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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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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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