An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Quote by Thomas Jefferson

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

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

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending...

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending...

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is...

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is...

I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest...

I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest...

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than...

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than...

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

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

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

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by...

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by...

Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art

Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art

Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art

Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art

The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion of principle but...

The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion of principle but...

If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the...

If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the...

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road...

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road...

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which...

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which...

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.