"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that ...

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I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.
More Thomas Jefferson quotes
"I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
"A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of in...
"If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few: by resignation none.
"Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.



