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Title: ~ Thomas Jefferson Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 05, 2015, 09:45:09 PM
Thomas Jefferson Quotes

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The third President of the United States and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809) and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776). An influential Founding Father, Jefferson envisioned America as a great "Empire of Liberty" that would promote republicanism.

Here are some famous quotes by Thomas Jefferson.

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The sun - my almighty physician.
Title: Re: ~ Thomas Jefferson Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 05, 2015, 09:46:51 PM
Taste cannot be controlled by law.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 05, 2015, 09:48:05 PM
All authority belongs to the people.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 05, 2015, 09:48:50 PM
Of all calamities this is the greatest.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 05, 2015, 09:49:32 PM
I succeed him; no one could replace him.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 05, 2015, 09:50:32 PM
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 05, 2015, 09:51:23 PM
The government is best which governs least.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 05, 2015, 09:52:15 PM
For God's sake let us freely hear both sides!
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Post by: MysteRy on November 05, 2015, 09:53:11 PM
The hole and the patch should be commensurate.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 05, 2015, 09:54:18 PM
Equal rights for all special privileges for none.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 05, 2015, 09:55:05 PM
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 05, 2015, 09:56:30 PM
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 05, 2015, 09:57:29 PM
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 05, 2015, 09:58:20 PM
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 05, 2015, 09:59:03 PM
I steer my bark with hope in my heart leaving fear astern.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 05, 2015, 09:59:53 PM
The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 05, 2015, 10:01:03 PM
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 05, 2015, 10:02:10 PM
History in general only informs us what bad government is.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 05, 2015, 10:03:21 PM
The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 05, 2015, 10:04:15 PM
I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:05:34 PM
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:06:02 PM
War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:06:30 PM
When angry count ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:06:55 PM
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:07:20 PM
The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:07:46 PM
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:08:11 PM
How much pain they have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:08:41 PM
Advertisements contain the only truth to be relied on in a newspaper.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:09:06 PM
I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:09:32 PM
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:10:01 PM
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:10:28 PM
If I could not go to Heaven but with a party I would not go there at all.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:10:56 PM
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:11:21 PM
The people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:11:46 PM
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:12:13 PM
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:12:37 PM
When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry count to one hundred.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:13:03 PM
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:13:29 PM
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself as public property.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:13:55 PM
No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:14:21 PM
There is no act however virtuous for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:14:53 PM
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on office a rottenness begins in his conduct.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:15:22 PM
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:15:55 PM
Whenever the people are well-informed they can be trusted with their own government.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:16:23 PM
It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:16:48 PM
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:17:18 PM
Peace commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:17:46 PM
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:18:11 PM
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:18:39 PM
That government is best which governs the least because its people discipline themselves.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:19:03 PM
I never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:19:30 PM
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:19:55 PM
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just that His justice cannot sleep forever.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:20:22 PM
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:20:48 PM
A republican government is slow to move yet when once in motion its momentum becomes irresistible.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:21:18 PM
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:21:45 PM
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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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:22:11 PM
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:22:36 PM
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:23:07 PM
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:23:34 PM
I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable too to set a good example than to follow a bad one.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:24:01 PM
No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame its parts their functions and actions.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:24:29 PM
I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:24:55 PM
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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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:25:24 PM
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans and must be that of every free state.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:25:48 PM
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:26:14 PM
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:26:49 PM
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:27:13 PM
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2015, 05:27:34 PM
Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2015, 06:52:50 PM
Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2015, 06:53:16 PM
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2015, 06:53:45 PM
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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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2015, 06:54:10 PM
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2015, 06:54:36 PM
The sword of the law should never fall but on those whose guilt is so apparent as to be pronounced by their friends as well as foes.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2015, 06:55:18 PM
If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few: by resignation none.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2015, 06:55:49 PM
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2015, 06:56:13 PM
The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2015, 06:56:49 PM
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2015, 06:57:17 PM
I am mortified to be told that in the United States of America the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry and of criminal inquiry too.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2015, 06:57:47 PM
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because if there be one he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blind-folded fear.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2015, 06:59:53 PM
It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings collected together are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2015, 07:00:22 PM
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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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2015, 07:00:47 PM
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2015, 07:01:14 PM
It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2015, 07:01:41 PM
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2015, 07:02:06 PM
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2015, 07:02:32 PM
Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God if He ever had a chosen people whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2015, 07:03:00 PM
If you are obliged to neglect any thing let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing to a country gentleman of all the ordinary branches of science.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2015, 07:03:27 PM
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself personally it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2015, 07:03:53 PM
It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2015, 07:04:21 PM
No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is in truth the only antidote to the bane of whiskey.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2015, 07:04:44 PM
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us but is always the result of a good conscience good health occupation and freedom in all just pursuits.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2015, 07:05:09 PM
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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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2015, 07:05:37 PM
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong but better so than not to be exercised at all.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2015, 07:06:03 PM
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights; that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2015, 07:06:30 PM
The flames kindled on the Fourth of July 1776 have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary they will consume these engines and all who work them.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2015, 07:06:55 PM
France freed from that monster Bonaparte must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one and the first choice of all not under those ties.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2015, 07:07:21 PM
When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through it is best to meet it with firmness and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil while fretting and fuming only increase your own torments.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2015, 07:07:49 PM
Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety and with the least possible expense. When these things are accomplished all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2015, 07:08:18 PM
The habit of using ardent spirits by men in office has occasioned more injury to the public and more trouble to me than all other causes. Were I to commence my administration again the first question I would ask respecting a candidate for office would be Does he use ardent spirits?
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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2015, 07:08:45 PM
When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through it is best to make up our minds to meet it with firmness and accommodate everything to it in the best way practical. This lessons the evil while fretting and fuming only serve to increase your own torments.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2015, 07:09:15 PM
...a wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2015, 07:09:36 PM
I know of 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 wholesome discretion the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.