When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever trouble another with what you can do yourself.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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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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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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I cannot live without books.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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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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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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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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