There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
THOMAS JEFFERSONPride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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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 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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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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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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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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I cannot live without books.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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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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