Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHow much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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I cannot live without books.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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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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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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