Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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