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163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes

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All men are created equal - beautiful words, aren’t they? But did you know that Thomas Jefferson - a Founding Father and the 3rd president of the United States - said them? Besides a myriad of notable achievements, Thomas Jefferson was also the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and that’s exactly where this famous quote comes from! By now, you must have a pretty good idea about the topic of this article, and you are completely right in assuming that it is going to be a compendium of the most noteworthy Thomas Jefferson quotes. So, buckle up and get ready for an experience of immense wisdom from way back in time!

Like any prominent historical person, Mr. Jefferson had some curiosities about him. Now, we aren’t going to list all of the interesting facts about Thomas Jefferson here, but we just couldn’t resist some! For instance, did you know that he was the first politician in US history to formulate the thought of free public education? An idea preceding the times, surely! Another great belief that he had was that of universal healthcare - something to take note of, right? But, besides these grand intentions, he was also just a human being with a passion for wine, an obsession with books, and a great taste for gourmet food. One might say that Thomas Jefferson was, in fact, a Founding Foodie!

But why don’t you scroll on down below and check out the famous quotes that came straight from this Founding Father’s head for yourself? Be sure to vote for the beautiful quotes that moved you or inspired you so they will find their way to the top of our list. Then, once you are done with it, share these intelligent quotes with your friends!

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#1

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "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 blindfolded fear."

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#2

"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."

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Adonis Pye 1 year ago

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"Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far."

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#4

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God."

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#5

"Be polite to all, but intimate with few."

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#6

"History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is."

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#7

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."

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#8

"When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred."

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#9

"He who knows best knows how little he knows."

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#10

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead."

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#11

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."

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#12

"Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching."

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#13

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "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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#14

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

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#15

"The most successful war seldom pays for its losses."

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#16

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "One man with courage is a majority."

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#17

"One travels more usefully when alone because he reflects more."

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#18

"Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people."

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#19

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever."

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#20

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

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#21

"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."

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M. William Bell Premium 2 years ago

“Unless that man happens to be owned by another. Then he should shut up and make me my breakfast.”

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163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another."

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#23

"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."

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#24

"Never spend your money before you have earned it."

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#25

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."

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#26

"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe."

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#27

"How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened."

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#28

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend."

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Eugene Treants 1 year ago

However, he never had to put up with Facebook!!

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#29

"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."

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#30

"He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors."

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#31

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "Money, not morality, is the principle of commerce of civilized nations."

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#32

"The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time."

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M. William Bell Premium 2 years ago

(But only those whose ancestors had a vitamin D deficiency.)

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#33

"Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do."

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#34

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."

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M. William Bell Premium 2 years ago

“No, Marcus. Of course I didn’t mean YOU! Get back to work before I break out my whip.”

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#35

"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be."

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#36

"Happiness is not being pained in the body or troubled in the mind."

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#37

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good."

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#38

"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money."

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M. William Bell Premium 2 years ago

…and who needs money when you don’t have to pay for labour?

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#39

"Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail."

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#40

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy."

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#41

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."

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Kim Contreras 2 years ago

Yes, although he said this so long ago, we are now seeing what he warned us about.

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#42

"Taste cannot be controlled by law."

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#43

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "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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Jerry Mathers 2 years ago

Trump supporters- this is for yoi

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#44

"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."

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#45

"There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world."

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#46

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "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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#47

"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."

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Eugene Treants 1 year ago

Unless you are a Democrat in Congress

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#48

"I cannot live without books."

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#49

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "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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#50

"The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery."

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#51

"Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society."

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#52

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses."

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#53

"I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary."

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Jerry Mathers 2 years ago

This applies double to any politician who starts wars

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#54

"It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read."

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#55

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another."

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#56

"Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other."

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#57

"As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also."

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Eugene Treants 1 year ago

Politicians do not understand this.

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#58

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country."

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#59

"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 the law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."

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#60

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

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#61

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."

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#62

"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."

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#63

"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains."

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#64

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto."

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#65

"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world."

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#66

"It is error alone that needs the support of the government. Truth can stand by itself."

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#67

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "Mankind is 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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#68

"It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness."

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#69

"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."

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#70

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."

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#71

"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question."

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#72

"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."

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#73

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, 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."

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#74

"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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#75

"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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#76

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it."

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#77

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences of attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it."

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#78

"We never repent of having eaten too little."

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#79

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression."

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#80

"I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master."

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#81

"There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me."

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#82

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."

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#83

"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."

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#84

"The republican is the only form of government that is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind."

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#85

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security."

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#86

"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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#87

"I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive."

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#88

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself apart."

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#89

"Delay is preferable to error."

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For Joe Biden

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#90

"Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remains uninterrupted."

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#91

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."

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#92

"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely happier for it."

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#93

"When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself public property."

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#94

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "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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#95

"Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct."

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#96

"We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country."

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#97

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it."

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#98

"Power is not alluring to pure minds."

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#99

"Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper."

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#100

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms."

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#101

"To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education."

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#102

"I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office."

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#103

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "If God is just, I tremble for my country."

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#104

"None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important."

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#105

"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories."

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#106

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations, the most abhorrent is a body without mind."

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#107

"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."

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#108

"In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to real virtue."

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#109

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression."

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#110

"No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place."

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#111

"I find that he is the happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad."

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#112

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "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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#113

"An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry."

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#114

"An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes."

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#115

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism."

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#116

"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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#117

"We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest."

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#118

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing than to believe what is wrong."

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#119

"The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory."

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#120

"My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me."

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#121

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "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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#122

"The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world."

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#123

"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."

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#124

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

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#125

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government."

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#126

"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none."

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#127

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference."

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#128

"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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#129

"Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. 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 blindfolded fear."

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#130

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "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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#131

"Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe."

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#132

"Always take hold of things by the smooth handle."

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#133

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "An injured friend is the bitterest of foes."

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#134

"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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#135

"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."

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#136

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man."

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#137

"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 a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion."

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#138

"A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit."

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#139

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty."

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#140

"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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#141

"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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#142

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "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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#143

"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day."

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#144

"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government."

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#145

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by the consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence."

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#146

"I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind."

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#147

"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."

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#148

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it."

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#149

"The resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us."

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#150

"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them."

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#151

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour."

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#152

"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?"

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#153

"No government ought to be without censors, and where the press is free no one ever will."

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#154

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also."

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#155

"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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#156

"We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed."

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#157

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force."

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#158

"I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others."

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#159

"I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy that Greek and Roman leave to us."

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#160

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government."

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#161

"Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism."

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#162

"There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents."

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#163

163 Of The Most Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes "The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them."

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Aivaras Kaziukonis

Aivaras is a SEO listicles curator. Aivaras is a student trying to pave the way to his career in Marketing and advertisment creation. Also Aivaras like's to watch and play sports, especially football.

Aivaras is a SEO listicles curator. Aivaras is a student trying to pave the way to his career in Marketing and advertisment creation. Also Aivaras like's to watch and play sports, especially football.

Justė Kairytė - Barkauskienė

Justė is a copywriter here at Bored Panda, and though her studies at the Veterinary Academy seemingly have nothing to do with writing, the passion for animals and nature helps in creating the most interesting and engaging posts. She also works with Search Engine Optimization, so you could find Bored Panda's articles easier. Justė's not only an avid equestrian, but she's also a walking encyclopedia. Ask her anything!

Justė is a copywriter here at Bored Panda, and though her studies at the Veterinary Academy seemingly have nothing to do with writing, the passion for animals and nature helps in creating the most interesting and engaging posts. She also works with Search Engine Optimization, so you could find Bored Panda's articles easier. Justė's not only an avid equestrian, but she's also a walking encyclopedia. Ask her anything!

What do you think ?

Monica Michelle 2 years ago

Not a person I want to take any advice from

2points

Annabeth Chase 2 years ago

(about Alexander Hamilton) "He knows nothing of loyalty. Smells like new money, dresses like fake royalty. Desperate to rise above his station. Everything he does betrays the ideals of our nation. And if you don't know, now you know Mr President."

0points

Monica Michelle 2 years ago

Not a person I want to take any advice from

2points

Annabeth Chase 2 years ago

(about Alexander Hamilton) "He knows nothing of loyalty. Smells like new money, dresses like fake royalty. Desperate to rise above his station. Everything he does betrays the ideals of our nation. And if you don't know, now you know Mr President."

0points

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