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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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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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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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