I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.
Quote by Thomas Jefferson
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I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
- I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just that his justice cannot sleep forever.
- My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
- Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
- I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
- The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
- The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
- The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
- I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
- Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
Best Quotes
- If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
- The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.
- The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
- When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
- The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
- I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.
- At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.
- Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
- I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
- In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.