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

Thomas Jefferson

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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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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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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Courtesy Deep Inspirational One Liner Polite
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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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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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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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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