Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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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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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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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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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