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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely happier for it.
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I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
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I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
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I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.
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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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I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office
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I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.
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I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
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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. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
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I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
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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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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
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I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
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If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
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If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.
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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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In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
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