Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTake things always by their smooth handle.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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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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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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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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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