Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Determine 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.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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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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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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