I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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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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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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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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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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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