Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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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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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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