| A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. |
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- Thomas Jefferson |
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| History, in general, only informs us what bad government is. |
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- Thomas Jefferson |
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| I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more luck I have. |
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- Thomas Jefferson |
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| I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. |
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- Thomas Jefferson |
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| There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me. |
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- Thomas Jefferson |
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| I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures? |
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- Thomas Jefferson |
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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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- Thomas Jefferson |
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| The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. |
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- Thomas Jefferson |
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| I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man. |
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- Thomas Jefferson |
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| In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. |
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- Thomas Jefferson |
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| Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. |
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- Thomas Jefferson |
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| An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. |
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- Thomas Jefferson |
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| Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. |
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- Thomas Jefferson |
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| Information is the currency of democracy. |
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- Thomas Jefferson |
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| I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. |
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- Thomas Jefferson |
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| I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. |
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- Thomas Jefferson |
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| It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. |
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- Thomas Jefferson |
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| But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. |
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- Thomas Jefferson |
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| Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. |
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- Thomas Jefferson |
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| Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one. |
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- Thomas Jefferson |
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