The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHow much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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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 cannot live without books.
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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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