The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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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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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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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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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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