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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONPride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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