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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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I cannot live without books.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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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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