I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHistory, 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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I cannot live without books.
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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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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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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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