Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
THOMAS JEFFERSONPeace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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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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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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I cannot live without books.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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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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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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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