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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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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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The dead should not rule the living.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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 believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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