Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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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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I cannot live without books.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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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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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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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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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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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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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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