The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhen angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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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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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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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 believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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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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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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