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The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.


Thomas Jefferson

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THOMAS JEFFERSON The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON Conscience is the chamber of justice.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON If you want something you've never had
You must be willing to do something you've never done.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that o...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficult...
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THOMAS JEFFERSON The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office
THOMAS JEFFERSON That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
THOMAS JEFFERSON When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there...
THOMAS JEFFERSON That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
THOMAS JEFFERSON In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fi...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my fam...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON We seldom report of having eaten too little.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Tranquility is the old man's milk.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
THOMAS JEFFERSON In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
THOMAS JEFFERSON