Quote by Thomas Jefferson
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man w

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. – Thomas Jefferson

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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

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Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. – Thomas Jefferson

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I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose. – Gerald Ford

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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. – Thomas Jefferson

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What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? – Abraham Lincoln

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Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone – no ancestors, no fellows, no successors. – Robert G. Ingersoll

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