I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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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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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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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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