The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNo people can be both ignorant and free.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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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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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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