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I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

~Thomas Jefferson

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If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

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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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Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

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Taste cannot be controlled by law.

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So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

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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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I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

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I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

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Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: April 13th, 1743

Died: July 4th, 1826

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