Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
THOMAS JEFFERSONA great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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 never repent of having eat too little.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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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