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A mind always employed is always happy.
Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson
Age: 83 †
Born: 1743
Born: April 2
Died: 1826
Died: July 4
3Rd U.S. President
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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.... Power is not alluring to pure minds and is not with them the primary principle of contest.
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Take painsto write a neat round, plain hand, and you will find it a great convenience through life to write a small and compact hand as well as a fair and legible one.
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An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will.
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Above all things, and at all times, practice yourself in good humor.
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We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves and consequently within what may be deemed the period of a generation, or the life of the majority.
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I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.
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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
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Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.
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A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the world.
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One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
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We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is a practicable government.
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Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to. . . . But where, by small grammatical negligences, the energy of an idea is condensed, or a word stands for a sentence, I hold grammatical rigor in contempt.
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Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not.
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My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind
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Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.
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A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government.
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No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.
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To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition.
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Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.
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ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them.
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