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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

Thomas Jefferson

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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Death Liberty Machine Man Struggle
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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Complain Determine Inspirational Lose Occasion Time
If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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Confidence Courage Hustle Inspirational Trust Work Hard
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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Ambition Design Freedom Independence Virtue
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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Civilization Expectation Freedom Ignorant Nation State
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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Earth Generation Independence Judgement Nation Politics
All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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Exist Fear Lost Reserve Truth World
I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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Believe Greatness Inspirational Luck Success Work Hard
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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Citizen Government Illegal Politics
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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Business Democracy Instruction Liberty Mind People
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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Affair Expectation Government Individual Law Politics
Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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Care Hustle Inspirational Money Success Take Care
A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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Business Deal Great Love
Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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According Goodness Human Imperfection Love Perfection
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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Himself Honesty Human Nature Lying
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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Deep Education Insult Man Newspaper Reading

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