The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Never spend your money before you have 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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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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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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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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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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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