I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIf you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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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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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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 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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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I cannot live without books.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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What 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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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