The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
THOMAS JEFFERSONGood wine is a necessity of life for me.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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