Power is not alluring to pure minds.
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If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained Those by death are few by resignations, none. Usually quoted Few die and none resign.Thomas Jefferson
I cannot live without books.
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If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.
Thomas Jefferson
If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism
Thomas Jefferson
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
Thomas Jefferson
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
Thomas Jefferson
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