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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.

Thomas Jefferson

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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Book Family Friendship Human Life World
An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Believe Enemy One Liner
If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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Confidence Courage Hustle Inspirational Trust Work Hard
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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Confidence Constitution Democracy Law Man Power
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Dreamss Future History Inspirational One Liner Past
There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Education Equality People Philosophy Treatment
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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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 cannot live without books.
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Addiction Book One Liner Reading
When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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Fear Government Liberty People Politics
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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Fund Future Money Principle
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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Country Government Majority Participate Politics
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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Business Hustle Inspirational One Liner Present Success
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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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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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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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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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Destructive Ending Government People Politics Right
I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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Believe Greatness Inspirational Luck Success Work Hard
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Inspirational Life Money One Liner Patience
We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.

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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.

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