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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
The second office in the government is honorable and easy the firs

The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery. – Thomas Jefferson

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Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. – Thomas Jefferson

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My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair. – Thomas Jefferson

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Its very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth. – Jimmy Carter

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Theres never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government. – Marco Rubio

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Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. – Denis Diderot

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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. – Edmund Burke

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Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect. – James Broughton

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just whats so. – Werner Erhard

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