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.
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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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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I 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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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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 think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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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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Never spend your money before you have it.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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