Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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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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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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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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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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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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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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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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