I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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 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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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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