My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Quote by Thomas Jefferson
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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
- 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.
- He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
- Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
- We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- 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.
- That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
- It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
- It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
- In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
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