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“The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.”

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Paulo Coelho, born on August 24, 1947, is a renowned Brazilian author and lyricist. His works are characterized by profound philosophical thoughts and rich imagination, with his most famous novel being 'The Alchemist'. more

“Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond the limits of these principles and involving dangers which the society chooses to avoid, they must go somewhere else for their exercise; that we want no citizens, and still less ephemeral and pseudo-citizens, on such terms. We may exclude them from our territory, as we do persons infected with disease.”

Source: Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States

“Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing essential.”

People May Government Form Politics Nations Please Essentials Forms Of Government

Book:Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States

Source: Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States

“The provisions we have made [for our government] are such as please ourselves; they answer the substantial purposes of government and of justice, and other purposes than these should not be answered.”

Should Made Government Purpose Politics Justice Answers Please Provision Purpose Of Government

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others.”

Doe Self Government Politics Self-government

Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont

“To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and to take from them, as from bees, so much of their earnings, as that unremitting labor shall be necessary to obtain a sufficient surplus to sustain a scanty and miserable life.”

People Hard Government Politics Force Poverty Ignorance Labor Miserable Sufficient Bees Earning Brutes Surplus Brute Force Constrain Miserable Life

Book:Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

“Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.”

People Wells Government Politics Devices Earning Persecution Idleness Fattening Schism

Book:The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815

Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815

“Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.”

Politics Anarchy Inefficiency

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.”

Littles Government Politics Too Much Middle Pendulums

Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787

“We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is a practicable government.”

Whole Government Politics Standing Proof Self-government

Book:Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness

Source: Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness

“A noiseless course, not meddling with the affairs of others, unattractive of notice, is a mark that society is going on in happiness. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy.”

People Ifs Government Care Courses Politics Labor Mark Affair Pretense Unattractive Meddling

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private

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