Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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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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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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