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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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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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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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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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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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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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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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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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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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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