Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHe who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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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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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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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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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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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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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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