There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHistory, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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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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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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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