I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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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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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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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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