Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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