More quotes by Thomas Jefferson

"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."
"In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue."
"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"
"There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people."
"A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be."