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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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Thomas Jefferson
Age: 83 †
Born: 1743
Born: April 2
Died: 1826
Died: July 4
3Rd U.S. President
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letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.
Thomas Jefferson
The patriot, like the Christian, must learn to bear revilings and persecutions as a part of his duty and in proportion as the trial is severe, firmness under it becomes more requisite and praiseworthy. It requires, indeed, self-command. But that will be fortified in proportion as the calls for its exercise are repeated.
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When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
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When tempted to do any thing in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
Thomas Jefferson
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.
Thomas Jefferson
The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights
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It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.
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There is no King, who, with sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute.
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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
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No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him.
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No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.
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Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility.
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If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ...Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.
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the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.
Thomas Jefferson
A generation may bind itself as long as its majority continues in life when that has disappeared, another majority is in place, holds all the rights and powers their predecessors once held, and may change their laws and institutions to suit themselves. Nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and inalienable rights of man.
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I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
Thomas Jefferson
Perfection in wisdom, as well as in integrity, is neither required nor expected in these agents (public servants). It belongs not to man. The wise know too well their weaknesses to assume infallibility and he who knows most, knows best how little he knows.
Thomas Jefferson
One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it.
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