The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

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When a man has cast his longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Thomas Jefferson in Notes on Virginia
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There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.

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There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

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Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

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I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

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Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

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

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An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

Thomas Jefferson in letter to John Melish (13 January 1813)
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