Quote by Thomas Jefferson
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happen

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. – Thomas Jefferson

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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. – Thomas Jefferson

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Society
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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. – Thomas Jefferson

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His life was a hymn in praise of honor, uprightness, and patriotism. – Orestes Ferrara

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Blot out from the page of history the names of all the great actors of his time in the drama of nations, and preserve the name of Washington, and the century would be renowned. – Chauncey M. Depew

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Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. – John F. Kennedy, 1961

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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. – Calvin Coolidge

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They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge. – Edward Bulwer Lytton

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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. – John Keats

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Who are you to condemn anothers sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it. – Georges Bernanos

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America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China. – Jo Ann Emerson

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