American - President | April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
Thomas Jefferson
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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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No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
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Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
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A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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Delay is preferable to error.
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Taste cannot be controlled by law.
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Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
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Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
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He who knows best knows how little he knows.
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