Quotes By Thomas Jefferson
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. 
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I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
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If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
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In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
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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.
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Information is the currency of democracy.
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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.
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It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
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It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
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It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
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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.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
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Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
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Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
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My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
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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.
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Never spend your money before you have earned it.
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No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
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Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
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One man with courage is a majority.
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One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
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Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
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Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
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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.
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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.
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Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
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Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
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Power is not alluring to pure minds.
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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.
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Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
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Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
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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.
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Taste cannot be controlled by law.
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That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
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That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
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The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
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The god who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
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The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
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The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
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The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
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The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
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The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
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The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.
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The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
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The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
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The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
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The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
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There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
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Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
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War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
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We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
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We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
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Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
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When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
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When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.
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When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
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When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
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Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
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Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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.
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