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Government governed least is government governed best.
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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May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.
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The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
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Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.
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Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.
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All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.
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I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Circumstances sometimes require, that rights the most unquestionable should be advanced with delicacy.
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Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.
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When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community. The objects of their desires are changed what they were fond of before has become indifferent they were free while under the restraint of laws, but they would fain now be free to act against law.
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From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.
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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
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One had rather have no opinion than a false one.
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Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
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I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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