I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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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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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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