We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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