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Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

Thomas Jefferson

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.

Thomas Jefferson

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.

Thomas Jefferson

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

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I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

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It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

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The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Thomas Jefferson