Quote by Thomas Jefferson
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of l

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. – Thomas Jefferson

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A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. – 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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Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. – Thomas Jefferson

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Its rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether its Hemingway, Van Gogh… Robert Schumann has been mentioned… Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath… some of them with rather grim ends. – Stephen Fry

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I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. – Buddha

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There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. – Plato

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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters. – Susan B. Anthony

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