Quote by Thomas Jefferson
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, i

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. – Thomas Jefferson

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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. – Thomas Jefferson

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. – Thomas Jefferson

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I dont think its a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chefs a fat pig. – Gordon Ramsay

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A good husband makes a good wife. – John Florio

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It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough. – Roger Ebert

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In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. – Albert Schweitzer

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Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other. – Heywood Broun

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