On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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