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

Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Topics: Talent Quotes, Words Quotes

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

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

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

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another,...

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another,...

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more...

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more...

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice...

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice...

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers...

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers...

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Conquest is not in our principles; it is inconsistent with our government.

Conquest is not in our principles; it is inconsistent with our government.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Politics, like religion, hold up torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

Politics, like religion, hold up torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by...

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by...

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy...

Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy...

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

It was more in our spirit to let things come to rights by the plain...

It was more in our spirit to let things come to rights by the plain...

To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know;...

To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know;...

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness;...

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness;...