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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONExperience 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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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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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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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