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The third President of the United States and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809) and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776). An influential Founding Father, Jefferson envisioned America as a great "Empire of Liberty" that would promote republicanism.
Here are some famous quotes by Thomas Jefferson.
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The sun - my almighty physician.
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Taste cannot be controlled by law.
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All authority belongs to the people.
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Of all calamities this is the greatest.
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I succeed him; no one could replace him.
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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
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The government is best which governs least.
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For God's sake let us freely hear both sides!
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The hole and the patch should be commensurate.
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Equal rights for all special privileges for none.
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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
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Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
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I steer my bark with hope in my heart leaving fear astern.
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The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.
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The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
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History in general only informs us what bad government is.
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The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.
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I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
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Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
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War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.
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When angry count ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.
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When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
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The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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How much pain they have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Advertisements contain the only truth to be relied on in a newspaper.
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I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past.
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It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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If I could not go to Heaven but with a party I would not go there at all.
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Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
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The people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
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Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
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Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
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When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry count to one hundred.
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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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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself as public property.
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No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.
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There is no act however virtuous for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.
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Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on office a rottenness begins in his conduct.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Whenever the people are well-informed they can be trusted with their own government.
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It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.
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No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
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Peace commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
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No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
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It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
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That government is best which governs the least because its people discipline themselves.
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I never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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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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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
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A republican government is slow to move yet when once in motion its momentum becomes irresistible.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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I do not take a single newspaper nor read one a month and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
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I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
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I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable too to set a good example than to follow a bad one.
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No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame its parts their functions and actions.
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I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.
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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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Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans and must be that of every free state.
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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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
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The sword of the law should never fall but on those whose guilt is so apparent as to be pronounced by their friends as well as foes.
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If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few: by resignation none.
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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
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The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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I am mortified to be told that in the United States of America the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry and of criminal inquiry too.
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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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It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings collected together are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.
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But friendship is precious not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
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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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It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.
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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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Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
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Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God if He ever had a chosen people whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
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If you are obliged to neglect any thing let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing to a country gentleman of all the ordinary branches of science.
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No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself personally it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
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It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back.
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No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is in truth the only antidote to the bane of whiskey.
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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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I never did or countenanced in public life a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong but better so than not to be exercised at all.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights; that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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The flames kindled on the Fourth of July 1776 have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary they will consume these engines and all who work them.
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France freed from that monster Bonaparte must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one and the first choice of all not under those ties.
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When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through it is best to meet it with firmness and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil while fretting and fuming only increase your own torments.
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Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety and with the least possible expense. When these things are accomplished all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered.
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The habit of using ardent spirits by men in office has occasioned more injury to the public and more trouble to me than all other causes. Were I to commence my administration again the first question I would ask respecting a candidate for office would be Does he use ardent spirits?
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When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through it is best to make up our minds to meet it with firmness and accommodate everything to it in the best way practical. This lessons the evil while fretting and fuming only serve to increase your own torments.
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...a wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.
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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with wholesome discretion the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.