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 JEFFERSONA great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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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 much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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