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Quotes By author - Starting with T - Thomas Jefferson
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There are 179 quotes for the author Thomas Jefferson
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Health is worth more than learning.
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Health
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Work: letter to his cousin John Garland Jefferson, June 11, 1790
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Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
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Laziness
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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.
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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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Journalism
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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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A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
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Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
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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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How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
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There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
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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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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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Miscellaneous
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Work: letter to James Lewis, Jr., May 9, 1798
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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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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That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
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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 have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.
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