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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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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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We never repent of having eat too little.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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 believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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