The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
THOMAS JEFFERSONA great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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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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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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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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I cannot live without books.
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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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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 only security of all is in a free press.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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