Quote by Thomas Jefferson
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own goo

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. – Thomas Jefferson

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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. – Thomas Jefferson

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Knowledge
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. – Thomas Jefferson

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Friendship
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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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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. – Benjamin Franklin

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Lifes pretty good, and why wouldnt it be? Im a pirate, after all. – Johnny Depp

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good

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. – Henry David Thoreau

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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. – Samuel Butler

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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise. – Natalie Clifford Barney

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God

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. You forget, said the Devil, with a chuckle, that I have been evolving too. – W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

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Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb. – Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Benjamin Franklin (Thanks, Art)

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Government