The Creator would indeed have been a bungling artist had he intended man for a social animal without planting in him social dispositions.

Quote by Thomas Jefferson

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The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for...

The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for...

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers...

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers...

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the...

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the...

We don't come here [Canada] for our health. We can think of other ways of...

We don't come here [Canada] for our health. We can think of other ways of...

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by...

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by...

If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the...

If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the...

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good...

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good...

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

This is the fourth?

This is the fourth?

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of...

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of...

The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and...

The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and...

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health...

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health...

I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.

I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have

He is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad

He is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad

Even the happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happiness'...

Even the happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happiness'...

Technology is changing our lives. It cannot and will not change what is fundamental to...

Technology is changing our lives. It cannot and will not change what is fundamental to...