I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office
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A selected quote by Thomas Jefferson.
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office
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My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains, my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk
Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain
Opposition: In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while
Lawyer: One skilled in circumvention of the law