I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhat 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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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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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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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We never repent of having eat too little.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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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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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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The dead should not rule the living.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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 think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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