Take things always by their smooth handle.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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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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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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