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Thomas Jefferson
“I cannot live without books.”
“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my ne...
“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wo...
“All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown t...
“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
THOMAS JEFFERSON
“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of ...
“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people unde...
“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not en...
“I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more."(Letter to John Banister, Jr.,June...
“Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.”
“Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...”
“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”
“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.”
