Thomas Jefferson
Quotations
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“So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“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.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“Power is not alluring to pure minds.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on…
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“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.” -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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“Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“One man with courage is a majority.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.” -Thomas Jefferson
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One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. – Thomas Jefferson
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In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. – Thomas Jefferson
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