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«France has sincerely wished peace, and their seducers have wished war, as well for the loaves and fishes which arise out of war expenses, as for the chance of changing the Constitution»
«When we reflect how difficult it is to move or deflect the great machine of society, how impossible to advance the notions of a whole people suddenly to ideal right, we see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the na»
«Without society, and a society to our taste, men are never contented»
«The summum bonum with me is now truly Epicurean, ease of body and tranquility of mind; and to these I wish to consign my remaining days»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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consign, consigned, consigns, epicurean, Epicureans, remaining, summum bonum, tranquility
«Experience (has) long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can when we cannot do all we would wish»
«The order of nature is that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.»
«It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.»
«It was more in our spirit to let things come to rights by the plain dictates of common sense than by the practice of any artifices.»
«The danger is that the cruel arts of their oppressors have enchained their minds, have kept them in the ignorance of children, and as incapable of self-government as children. If the obstacles of bigotry, the shackles of the priest-craft can be surmo»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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craft, enchain, enchained, enchains, oppressors, self government
«The greatest honor of a man is in doing good to his fellow men, not in destroying them.»
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