Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
Thomas JeffersonThe most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Thomas JeffersonTags: writing
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
Thomas JeffersonTags: government
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Thomas JeffersonI cannot live without books.
Thomas JeffersonTags: books
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.
Thomas JeffersonGood wine is a necessity of life for me.
Thomas JeffersonEvery human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
Thomas JeffersonTags: imperfections
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
{Letter to celebrated scientist Alexander von Humboldt, 6 December, 1813}
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...as we advance in life these things fall off one by one , and I suspect we are left with only Homer and Virgil, perhaps with only Homer alone.
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