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(838 votes) 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
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(742 votes) It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(526 votes) Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(512 votes) There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(509 votes) 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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1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(488 votes) A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(484 votes) Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(480 votes) A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

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1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(467 votes) The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.

Thomas Jefferson

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(465 votes) Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(458 votes) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have

Thomas Jefferson

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(458 votes) Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

Thomas Jefferson

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(456 votes) The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(456 votes) The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(455 votes) My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

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1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(454 votes) 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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1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(453 votes) 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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(450 votes) What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

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1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(450 votes) 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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1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(450 votes) Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

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(449 votes) Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

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(446 votes) Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(444 votes) 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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1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(443 votes) If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(442 votes) Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(440 votes) Tranquility is the old man's milk.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(438 votes) Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are then most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise. Protection from casual embarrassments, however, may sometimes be seasonably interposed.

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1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(438 votes) Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(436 votes) I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

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1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(436 votes) The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

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1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(434 votes) Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?

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(434 votes) I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

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(433 votes) 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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1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(432 votes) Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(426 votes) Information is the currency of democracy.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(426 votes) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers.

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1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(425 votes) I cannot live without books.

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1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(424 votes) This is the fourth?

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(424 votes) In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal.

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1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(424 votes) Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

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1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(422 votes) 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.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(421 votes) Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Thomas Jefferson

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(415 votes) No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(413 votes) I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(413 votes) The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

Thomas Jefferson

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(410 votes) The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(409 votes) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(409 votes) No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(405 votes) 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
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(402 votes) We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals, our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.

Thomas Henry Jefferson

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