QUOTES by Thomas Jefferson
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“It is my rule never to take a side in any part in the quarrels of others, nor to inquire into them. I generally presume them to flow from the indulgence of too much passion on both sides, & always find that each party thinks all the wrong was in his adversary. These bickerings, which are always useless, embitter human life more than any other cause…”
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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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“I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man’s milk and restorative cordial.”
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“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”
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“As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.”
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“Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.”
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“Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.”
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“We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.”
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“The laws that forbid the carrying of arms… disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.”
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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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“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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“No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.”
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“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
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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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“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”
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“An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.”
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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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“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
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“He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.”
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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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“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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“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.”
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“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.”
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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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“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
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“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”
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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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“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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“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.”
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