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1:Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom. ~ Thomas Jefferson #KEYS
2:Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
~ Thomas Jefferson,#KEYS
3:Where the press is free, and everyone is able to read, all is safe. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #KEYS
4:I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #KEYS
5:When the speech condemns a free press, you are hearing the words of a tyrant.
~ Thomas Jefferson?,#KEYS
6:Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #KEYS
7:If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny. ~ Thomas Jefferson, paraphrase of Jefferson's statement in Notes on the State of Virginia, #KEYS
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1:probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 2:I knew Thomas Jefferson. He was a friend of mine. And believe me, you are no Thomas Jefferson. (at 1992 Republican party convention, referring to Bill Clinton) ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 3:I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 4:Thomas Jefferson once said. He said , "We should never judge a President by his age, only by his works." And ever since he told me that, I've stopped worrying. There are those who say I've stopped working. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 5:Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 6:Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 7:Thomas Jefferson made a comment about the Presidency and age. He said that one should not worry about one's exact chronological age in reference to his ability to perform one's task. And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 8:My long-time view about Christianity is that it represents an amalgam of two seemingly immiscible parts-the religion of Jesus and the religion of Paul. Thomas Jefferson attempted to excise the Pauline parts of the New Testament. There wasn't much left when he was done, but it was an inspiring document. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 9:Voltaire said about God that ‘there is no God, but don’t tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night’. Hammurabi would have said the same about his principle of hierarchy, and Thomas Jefferson about human rights. Homo sapiens has no natural rights, just as spiders, hyenas and chimpanzees have no natural rights. But don’t tell that to our servants, lest they murder us at night. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 10:The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmonious proportions to produce a creative intelligence. And so did the most brilliant intelligence of our earliest days - Thomas Jefferson - when he said, not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise. If the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence, was Secretary of State, and twice President, could give it two hours, our children can give it ten or fifteen minutes. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 11:I've long believed that one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation that anyone's child, even from the humblest of families, could grow up to own a business or a corporation. Thomas Jefferson dreamed of a land of small farmers, of shopowners, and merchants. Abraham Lincoln signed into law the Homestead Act that ensured that the great western prairies of America would be the realm of independent, propertyowning citizens-a mightier guarantee of freedom is difficult to imagine. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 12:How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined. You always insist that the order sustaining society is an objective reality created by the great gods or by the laws of nature. People are unequal, not because Hammurabi said so, but because Enlil and Marduk decreed it. People are equal, not because Thomas Jefferson said so, but because God created them that way. Free markets are the best economic system, not because Adam Smith said so, but because these are the immutable laws of nature. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:Thomas Jefferson ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
2:Is it the Fourth? ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
3:Thomas Jefferson survives. ~ John Adams, #NFDB
4:Peace is our passion. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
5:Force cannot give right. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
6:Our people shall be free ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
7:Thomas Jefferson still survives ~ John Adams, #NFDB
8:All men are created equal. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
9:I can't live without books ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
10:I can't live without magic ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
11:Merchants have no country. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
12:I cannot live without books ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
13:The smell rewards the care. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
14:I can not live without books ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
15:I cannot live without books. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
16:Delay is preferable to error. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
17:I can not live without books. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
18:The merchant has no country . ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
19:Everything yields to diligence ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
20:I cannot live without books... ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
21:Light and liberty go together. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
22:Our bills shall not be killed. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
23:Everything yields to diligence. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
24:Resisting tyranny is obeying God ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
25:The sun - my almighty physician. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
26:Dependence leads to subservience. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
27:Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
28:I cannot live without books . . . ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
29:I cannot live without my books" - ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
30:Ignorance is preferable to error. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
31:Taste cannot be controlled by law. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
32:Tranquility is the old man's milk. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
33:A little rebellion is a good thing. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
34:Freedom, the first-born of science. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
35:Half a loaf is better than no bread ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
36:Health is worth more than learning. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
37:I have sworn upon the altar of god. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
38:One generation cannot bind another. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
39:One man with courage is a majority. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
40:The dead should not rule the living ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
41:A little revolution is a good thing. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
42:All authority belongs to the people. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
43:All power is inherent in the people. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
44:A strong body makes the mind strong. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
45:Bigotry is the disease of ignorance. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
46:Ministers and merchants love nobody. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
47:Never use one word when two will do. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
48:Power is not alluring to pure minds. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
49:The dead should not rule the living. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
50:Without virtue, happiness cannot be. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
51:As government grows, freedom recedes. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
52:Never use two words when one will do. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
53:Without books, I would certainly die. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
54:Follow truth wherever it may lead you. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
55:Health is the requisite after morality ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
56:Health is value greater than studying. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
57:I’m not Thomas Jefferson. He was a pussy. ~ Charlie Sheen, #NFDB
58:Of all exercises, walking is the best. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
59:The same facts impress us differently. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
60:A mind always employed is always happy. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
61:Evil triumphs when good men do nothing. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
62:What we learn to do, we learn by doing. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
63:A little rebellion is good now and then. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
64:Be polite to all, but intimate with few. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
65:Don't spend your money till you have it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
66:Every generation needs a new revolution. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
67:Good wine is a necessity of life for me. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
68:I am a sect by myself, as far as I know. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
69:no people can be both ignorant and free. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
70:The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
71:The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
72:I like to see the people awake and alert. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
73:Let the eye of vigilance never be closed. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
74:No nation is drunken where wine is cheap. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
75:Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
76:What is it men cannot be made to believe! ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
77:From candlelight to early bedtime, I read. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
78:In matters of principal stand like a rock. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
79:Never spend your money before you have it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
80:One insult pocketed soon produces another. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
81:Question boldly even the existence of God. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
82:Take things always by their smooth handle. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
83:The power of making war often prevents it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
84:The soil is the gift of God to the living. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
85:Traveling makes men wiser, but less happy. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
86:A good neighbor is a very desireable thing. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
87:An injured friend is the bitterest of foes. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
88:Free men do not ask permission to bear arms ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
89:History is philosophy teaching by examples. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
90:In matters of principle, stand like a rock. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
91:The price of barbecue is eternal vigilance. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
92:We never repent of having eaten too little. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
93:Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
94:Eternal Vigilance is the price of democracy. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
95:He who knows best knows how little he knows. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
96:Never trust quotes you find on the internet. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
97:Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
98:Our liberty depends on freedom of the press. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
99:ours are the only farmers who can read Homer ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
100:The art of life is the art of avoiding pain. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
101:The darker the berry, the sweeter the juice. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
102:The only security of all is in a free press. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
103:When the heart is right, the feet are swift. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
104:Difference of opinion is helpful in religion. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
105:I cannot live without books. Thomas Jefferson ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
106:Ignorance is a poor tool in a battle of wits. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
107:No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
108:No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
109:No people who are ignorant can be truly free. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
110:Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
111:The Bible makes the best people in the world. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
112:Truth between candid minds can never do harm. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
113:Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
114:It is better to have no ideas than false ones. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
115:The hole and the patch should be commensurate. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
116:This is the fourth?
[Last words] ~ Thomas Jefferson,#NFDB
117:Victory and defeat are each of the same price. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
118:What i value more than all things, good humor. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
119:Wine brightens the life and thinking of anyone ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
120:Freedom [is] the first-born daughter of science ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
121:Those are governed best who are governed least. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
122:A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
123:Always take hold of things by the smooth handle. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
124:A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
125:Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
126:Every man has two countries: his own and France. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
127:Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
128:If you serve humanity, you serve humanity's God. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
129:. . . in the full tide of successful experiment. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
130:Music...This is the favorite passion of my soul. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
131:Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
132:One had rather have no opinion than a false one. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
133:That government that governs least governs best. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
134:The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
135:The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
136:The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
137:Thomas Jefferson basically secularized Jesus. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson, #NFDB
138:But though an old man, I am but a young gardener. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
139:Equal rights for all, special privileges for none ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
140:I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
141:My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
142:NEVER PUT OFF FOR TOMORROW, WHAT YOU CAN DO TODAY ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
143:Never spend your money before you have earned it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
144:The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
145:When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
146:Never trouble another for what you can do yourself ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
147:No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
148:Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
149:That government which governs best, governs least. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
150:The bloom of Monticello is chilled by my solitude. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
151:We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
152:Books may be classed from the Faculties of the mind ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
153:Coffee - the favorite drink of the civilized world. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
154:Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
155:If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
156:Most men die at age 25, but aren't buried until 70. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
157:No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
158:Question with boldness even the existence of a god. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
159:The earth belongs always to the living generations. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
160:The most successful war seldom pays for its losses. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
161:Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
162:Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
163:Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
164:An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
165:A room without books is like a life without meaning. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
166:If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy? ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
167:We might have been a free and great people together. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
168:When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
169:A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
170:Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
171:Knowledge indeed is a desirable, a lovely possession. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
172:Public offices were not made for private convenience. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
173:...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
174:We must be contented to amuse, when we cannot inform. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
175:We wish the happiness and prosperity of every nation. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
176:A free government is of all others the most energetic. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
177:Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
178:Doubts and jealousies often beget the facts they fear. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
179:Government governed least is government governed best. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
180:Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
181:No society is so precious as that of one’s own family. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
182:The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
183:The federal government is our servant, not our master. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
184:You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
185:Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art . ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
186:Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
187:The government you elect is the government you deserve. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
188:Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
189:Walking is the best possible exercise. — THOMAS JEFFERSON ~ Michael J Gelb, #NFDB
190:We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
191:Your own reason is the only oracle given to you by God. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
192:Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
193:I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
194:Nothing can now be believed that is seen in a newspaper. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
195:The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
196:The law of self-preservation is higher than written law. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
197:The only way to win money out of a casino is to own one. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
198:Do not write me studied letters but ramble as you please. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
199:I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
200:I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
201:No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
202:Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
203:Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
204:The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
205:Those who would trade safety for freedom deserve neither. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
206:Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
207:We figure great careers aren't made. They're experienced. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
208:A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
209:Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
210:Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
211:Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
212:None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
213:Our business is to have great credit and to use it little. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
214:the field of knolege is the common property of all mankind ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
215:Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
216:To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
217:Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
218:All that is necessary for a student is access to a library. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
219:Although we are free by the law, we are not so in practice. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
220:An elective despotism was not the government we fought for. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
221:A true patriot will defend his country from its government. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
222:God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
223:I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
224:I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
225:I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
226:Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
227:The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
228:The bridge between failure and success is hope. THOMAS JEFFERSON ~ Dave Ramsey, #NFDB
229:[The Federal Convention] is really an assembly of demigods. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
230:The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
231:The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
232:the measure of society is how it treats the weakest members ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
233:The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
234:Whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
235:History, in general, only informs us what bad government is. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
236:I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
237:If you have to eat crow, eat it while it's young and tender. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
238:It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
239:Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
240:The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
241:The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
242:The past stays put, I just keep moving farther away from it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
243:The small landholders are the most precious part of a state. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
244:A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
245:An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
246:A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
247:Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
248:Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
249:Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
250:I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
251:I find that the harder I work , the more luck I seem to have. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
252:It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
253:No man has done everything he can who has done only his best. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
254:Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
255:Religions are all the same...Based upon legends and fantasies ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
256:when you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
257:A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
258:Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
259:Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
260:I cannot live without books.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) ~ Thomas Jefferson,#NFDB
261:I find as I grow older, I love those most, whom I loved first. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
262:If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
263:I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
264:Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
265:The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
266:The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
267:[The People] are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
268:There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
269:Wine from long habit has become an indispensable for my health ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
270:A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
271:[A] lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
272:All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
273:By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
274:Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
275:Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
276:History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
277:I am ever unwilling that [peace] should be disturbed as long as ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
278:I cannot live qithout books"~ Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
279:I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
280:Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is Just ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
281:It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
282:One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
283:Our duty to ourselves, to posterity, and to mankind, call on us ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
284:The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
285:The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
286:The only true corrective of Constitutional abuses is education. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
287:Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
288:Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
289:For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
290:Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
291:Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
292:Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
293:Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
294:One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
295:Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
296:The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
297:The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
298:The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
299:Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
300:But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
301:By nature's law, man is at peace with man till some aggression is ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
302:Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
303:I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
304:I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
305:It is an essential attribute of the jurisdiction of every country ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
306:It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
307:No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
308:Nothing betrays imbecility so much as the being insensible of it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
309:The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
310:The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
311:The only thing a man can take beyond this lifetime is his ethics. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
312:War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
313:A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
314:I find friendship to be like wine. Raw when new. Ripened with age. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
315:I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
316:...in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy all of them ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
317:Never put off your massage until tomorrow if you can get it today. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
318:One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
319:When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
320:Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
~ Thomas Jefferson,#NFDB
321:Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
322:Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
323:A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
324:Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
325:God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
326:Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
327:I'd prefer to have dangerous freedom,
than have peaceful slavery ~ Thomas Jefferson,#NFDB
328:It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
329:Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
330:No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
331:The sheep are happier of themselves, than under the care of wolves. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
332:The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
333:We need a revolution every 20 years just to keep government honest. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
334:When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
335:Above all things, and at all times, practice yourself in good humor. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
336:A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
337:Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
338:Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
339:Hemp is one of the greatest, most important substances of our nation ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
340:I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
341:It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
342:It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
343:Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
344:Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
345:Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
346:Peace, that glorious moment in time when everyone stops and reloads. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
347:Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
348:The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
349:The variety of opinions leads to questions. Questions lead to truth. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
350:Travelling is good for your health and necessary for your amusement. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
351:Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
352:Where the press is free, and everyone is able to read, all is safe. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
353:A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
354:An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
355:An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
356:Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
357:How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
358:I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
359:It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
360:Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
361:No government can continue good, but under the control of the people. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
362:Without society, and a society to our taste, men are never contented. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
363:It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
364:Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
365:Nothing can be believed but what one sees, or has from an eye witness. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
366:One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
367:Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
368:The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
369:The mass of the citizens is the safest depositary of their own rights. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
370:The tender breasts of ladies were not formed for political convulsion. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
371:This is a subject with which wisdom and patriotism should be occupied. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
372:To draw around the whole nation the strength of the General Government ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
373:To every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
374:An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
375:An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
376:A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
377:[Christianity is] the most ... perverted system that ever shone on man. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
378:Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
379:Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
380:He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
381:I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
382:In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
383:In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
384:It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
385:Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
386:ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
387:The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
388:A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
389:A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
390:Cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous and independent citizens. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
391:How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. -- ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
392:I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
393:I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
394:The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
395:The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
396:History of the United States in the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson, ~ Stephen E Ambrose, #NFDB
397:It is in the love of one's family only that heartfelt happiness is known. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
398:Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
399:[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
400:Postpone to the great object of Liberty every smaller motive and passion. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
401:That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
402:The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
403:There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
404:Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
405:Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
406:Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
407:We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
408:As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
409:Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
410:Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
411:Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
412:If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
413:In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
414:Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
415:Of all machines, the human heart is the most complicated and inexplicable. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
416:Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
417:The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
418:The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation is ever dangerous. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
419:The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
420:besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
421:It is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be read. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
422:Opinion, and the just maintenance of it, shall never be a crime in my view. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
423:The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
424:The Governor would serve a five-year term and be ineligible for reelection. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
425:Thomas Jefferson creates the Marines for the Islamic pirates that were happening. ~ Glenn Beck, #NFDB
426:Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
427:God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.” — Thomas Jefferson ~ G S Jennsen, #NFDB
428:He does most in God's great world who does his best in his own little world. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
429:I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
430:It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
431:Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
432:Nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and inalienable rights of man. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
433:One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
434:Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
435:The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
436:The protection of our citizens, the spirit and honor of our country, require ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
437:The rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
438:Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
439:All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
440:For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
441:I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
442:Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
443:Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
444:My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
445:Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
446:We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
447:Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched? ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
448:Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
449:Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
450:Inspirational Quotes on: Honesty, Simplicity, Secret, Universe, Modesty, Peace ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
451:Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
452:Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
453:Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
454:The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
455:The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
456:We are the friends of liberty everywhere, but the guarrantors of only our own. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
457:When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
458:As was said by Thomas Jefferson, “the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. ~ William R Forstchen, #NFDB
459:Bind them down by the chains of the Constitution where they can do no mischief. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
460:Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
461:Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
462:I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
463:I'd rather have newspapers and no government than government and no newspapers. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
464:I extremely believe in luck, and I discovered more hard work, your luck as much ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
465:I firmly believe in luck. And I noticed: the more I work, the luckier I become. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
466:Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
467:Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
468:The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
469:When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
470:All the world would be Christian if they were taught the pure Gospel of Christ!. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
471:Easter was when they nailed Him to the cross. And He never said a mumbling word. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
472:I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
473:Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
474:The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
475:There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
476:Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
477:We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
478:We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
479:We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
480:When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
481:I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
482:It must be observed that our revenues are raised almost wholly on imported goods. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
483:My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
484:Nothing is so disgusting to our sex as want of cleanliness and delicacy in yours. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
485:The fortune of our lives depends on employing well the short period of our youth. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
486:The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
487:The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
488:The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
489:We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
490:When the speech condemns a free press, you are hearing the words of a tyrant.
~ Thomas Jefferson?,#NFDB
491:With the same honest views, the most honest men often form different conclusions. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
492:all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the Atmosphere. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
493:A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
494:I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
495:I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
496:I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
497:May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
498:Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
499:We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
500:When tempted to do any thing in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
501:I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
502:It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
503:Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
504:Some other natural rights... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
505:That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
506:The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
507:The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
508:Thomas Jefferson said, “It’s wonderful how much can be done if we are always working. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
509:Thomas Jefferson taught that a democracy was impractical unless the people were educated. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
510:Though [the people] may acquiesce, they cannot approve what they do not understand. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
511:What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
512:If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
513:It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
514:Nobody is better than you and remember, you are better than nobody. Thomas Jefferson ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
515:Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
516:The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
517:There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
518:Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
519:An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
520:A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
521:Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
522:I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
523:If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
524:I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
525:The happiest hours of my life have been spent in the flow of affection among friends. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
526:The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
527:[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
528:There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
529:There is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
530:Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
531:Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
532:Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
533:I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
534:I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
535:In spite of what Thomas Jefferson wrote, all men may be created equal, but not to all women. ~ Bill Cosby, #NFDB
536:No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
537:One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
538:Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
539:The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
540:Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
541:All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
542:A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of life... ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
543:I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
544:In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
545:It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
546:On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
547:Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
548:The greatest honor of a man is in doing good to his fellow men, not in destroying them. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
549:The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
550:The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
551:The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
552:There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
553:Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
554:A habilidade mais valiosa é aquela de jamais usar duas palavras quando uma apenas basta. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
555:A professorship of theology should have
no place in our institution. —THOMAS JEFFERSON ~ Richard Dawkins,#NFDB
556:Determine never to be idle. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
557:"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you." ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
558:Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
559:Everything is useful which contributes to fix in the principles and practices of virtue. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
560:Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
561:History, by apprising [the people] of the past, will enable them to judge of the future. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
562:It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
563:I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
564:No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
565:No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
566:Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
567:That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
568:The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural rights. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
569:The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
570:The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
571:We must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
572:Where thought is free in its range, we need never fear to hazard what is good in itself. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
573:Earnestly recommended to all officers and soldiers, diligently to attend divine services. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
574:He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
575:I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
576:I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
577:Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good? ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
578:Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
579:Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everyone is standing around reloading ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
580:Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
581:There is preparing, I hope, under the auspices of heaven, a way for a total emancipation. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
582:The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
583:Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.” —Thomas Jefferson ~ Mark Sisson, #NFDB
584:We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
585:Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
586:While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
587:Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate. ~ Hunter S Thompson, #NFDB
588:Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
589:I pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
590:Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
591:Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
592:The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
593:The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
594:A machine for making revolutions is doing precisely the wrong thing at just the right time. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
595:Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
596:Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
597:Every gentleman plays billiards, but someone who plays billiards too well, is no gentleman. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
598:It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
599:music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
600:Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
601:The constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
602:There is no King, who, with sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
603:Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
604:Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
605:Who better to so softly bind the wound of one, than she who has suffered the wound herself. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
606:A government held together by the bands of reason only, requires much compromise of opinion. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
607:All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
608:Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
609:I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
610:If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.' ~ Robin Quivers, #NFDB
611:If you want something you’ve never had, you’ve got to do something you’ve never done before. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
612:I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
613:I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
614:Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
615:No person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
616:Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
617:The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
618:Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
619:I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
620:If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
621:I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
622:Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
623:The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
624:The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
625:The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
626:The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
627:The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
628:There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
629:The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
630:Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
631:When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
632:A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
633:a woman who brings a child every two years [is] more profitable than the best man of the farm. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
634:I trust there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
635:Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
636:never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
637:New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
638:No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
639:The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
640:The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
641:We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
642:Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
643:Banking establishments are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.” Thomas Jefferson ~ Chris Dietzel, #NFDB
644:But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
645:Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
646:I don't want them to kill no hog . . . . I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two feet. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
647:Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
648:It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
649:letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
650:Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
651:The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy]. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
652:The children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
653:The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
654:The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
655:The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
656:Thomas Jefferson, happiness was based on the choices we make, not the conditions we were born with. ~ Jack Kilborn, #NFDB
657:Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
658:When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
659:A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. —Thomas Jefferson, “Letter to James Madison” (1787) ~ Raine Miller, #NFDB
660:A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
661:A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia] ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
662:If you want something you've never had
You must be willing to do something you've never done. ~ Thomas Jefferson,#NFDB
663:I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. ~ Thomas Jefferson ~ M J DeMarco, #NFDB
664:In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
665:I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
666:Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
667:The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
668:The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
669:The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
670:The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
671:To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
672:Experience has proved to us that a dollar of silver disappears for every dollar of paper emitted. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
673:Pokud chcete něco, co jste nikdy neměli, musíte být ochotni udělat něco, co jste nikdy neudělali. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
674:we declared that an attack on any one colony should be considered as an attack on the whole. This ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
675:A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
676:Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
677:I believe in good luck, and the harder I work and the more I believe in myself, the luckier I get. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
678:I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
679:It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterward. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
680:Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
681:No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
682:Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
683:The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
684:The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
685:We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
686:We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
687:Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
688:Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
689:The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
690:The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
691:granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
692:He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
693:I believe the states can best govern our home concerns, and the general government our foreign ones. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
694:If you have any duty which must be done, and it seems disagreeable, do it promptly and have it over. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
695:It is the duty of every American citizen to take part in a vigorous debate on the issues of the day. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
696:Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
697:My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave consequences to him who has the disposal of them. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
698:The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
699:The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
700:The inquisition of public opinion overwhelms in practice the freedom asserted by the laws in theory. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
701:The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
702:We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
703:All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
704:Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
705:Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
706:[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
707:never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word
Paraphrased ~ Thomas Jefferson,#NFDB
708:The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor am I. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
709:We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
710:When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
711:All, all dead: and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know not us. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
712:Circumstances sometimes require, that rights the most unquestionable should be advanced with delicacy. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
713:I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
714:I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice will not sleep forever. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
715:No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
716:Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
717:The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
718:The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
719:Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
720:History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
721:If Americans desire to be both ignorant and free, they want what never has been and what never will be. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
722:I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
723:Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . . ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
724:Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise, and the weather should be little regarded. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
725:The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
726:Were people to mingle only with those of like mind, every man would be an insulate being." Thomas Jefferson ~ John Ferling, #NFDB
727:When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
728:Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
729:Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
730:I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
731:I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
732:Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
733:It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
734:Kejujuran merupakan suatu kebijakan dalam bisnis, yang tidak perlu diubah atau disesuaikan dengan waktu. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
735:Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
736:The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
737:The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
738:To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
739:I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
740:I have sworn upon the altar of god, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
741:The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
742:The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
743:The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
744:To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
745:We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
746:I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
747:If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
748:I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
749:Kalau marah, berhitunglah sampai sepuluh sebelum berbicara, atau bahkan seratus kalau sedang marah sekali. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
750:the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
751:Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
752:When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
753:History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
754:I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
755:I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
756:The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
757:The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
758:Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
759:Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
760:I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
761:I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
762:I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
763:I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
764:I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
765:It would not be for the public good to have [a majority in Congress of one party] greater [than] two to one. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
766:Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
767:Slavery is an abomination and must be loudly proclaimed as such, but I own that I nor any other man has any ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
768:That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798) ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
769:An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
770:[A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation...is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
771:Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
772:History has informed us that bodies of men, as well as individuals, are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
773:I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
774:Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
775:Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
776:He [Weishaupt] says, no one ever laid a surer foundation for liberty than our grand master, Jesus of Nazareth. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
777:If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
778:I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
779:I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
780:I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, that the dart belongs in usufruct to the living. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
781:I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
782:Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
783:Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes it with so silent, yet so baneful, a tooth, as indolence. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
784:Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
785:Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
786:preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
787:To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
788:Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
789:[A]lthough a republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
790:An acre of the best ground for hemp, is to be selected and sewn in hemp and be kept for a permanent hemp patch. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
791:A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
792:Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law. ~ Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper (10 February 1814), #NFDB
793:I believe that Thomas Jefferson said: 'If it neither breaks my leg nor picks my pocket, what difference is it to me?' ~ Glenn Beck, #NFDB
794:I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
795:I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. —Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, 1816 ~ Jack McDevitt, #NFDB
796:I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
797:No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
798:Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
799:The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty ... students perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
800:The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. —THOMAS JEFFERSON ~ Michelle Moran, #NFDB
801:The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
802:Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
803:Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
804:For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
805:If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
806:If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
807:If your letters are as long as the bible, they will appear short to me. Only let them be brim full of affection. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
808:I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
809:It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
810:No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
811:The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
812:When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
813:Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
814:He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors. —Thomas Jefferson ~ Brandi Reeds, #NFDB
815:I do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on the earth. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
816:Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
817:Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
818:The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
819:The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy but cannot disjoin them. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
820:The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. ~ Thomas Jefferson, Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774), #NFDB
821:The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
822:the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
823:The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots . . . —Thomas Jefferson, 1787 ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
824:To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
825:Any Government strong enough to give you what you want, is a Government strong enough to take everything you have! ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
826:Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
827:he repudiated the writings of the Apostle Paul," whom he considered the (first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
828:It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
829:No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
830:No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
831:Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry... ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
832:The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
833:The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
834:Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
835:War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
836:We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
837:Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
838:Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
839:I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
840:I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
841:In a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
842:Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
843:The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
844:Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
845:creation: “If I could not go to heaven but with a party,” proclaimed Thomas Jefferson, “I would not go there at all.”1 ~ Joseph J Ellis, #NFDB
846:Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
847:Enlighten the people, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
848:It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own consent. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
849:The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
850:The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
851:The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
852:Thomas Jefferson was a real poet. He was slick with that 'pursuit' of happiness because the 'pursuit' puts it back on you. ~ Will Smith, #NFDB
853:A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
854:Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
855:From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
856:If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
857:If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
858:I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
859:It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
860:It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
861:It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
862:Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
863:My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
864:We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
865:Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
866:Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
867:Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
868:Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
869:For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
870:I advance it therefore [...] that the blacks [...] are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
871:Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
872:Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
873:It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
874:I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
875:May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
876:Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
877:The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
878:The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
879:Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
880:We are completely saddled and bridled, and... the bank is so firmly mounted on us that we must go where it will guide. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
881:Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
882:Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
883:Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
884:Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
885:I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
886:It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
887:Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
888:Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
889:The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
890:With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
891:History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
892:It is error alone that needs the support of government.2 Truth can stand by itself. —THOMAS JEFFERSON, on freedom of religion ~ Jon Meacham, #NFDB
893:It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation, even of that which has injured us most. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
894:Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
895:The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
896:The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
897:The laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
898:The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrant. It is its natural manure. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
899:Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
900:As Thomas Jefferson proclaimed, “In matters of fashion, swim with the current. In matters of conscience, stand like a rock. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
901:I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
902:It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
903:I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
904:Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
905:Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” “I get the feeling that’s not what Thomas Jefferson meant,” muttered Mitch. ~ V E Schwab, #NFDB
906:The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
907:The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It had only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
908:We seem not to perceive that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independent nation is to another. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
909:With all the imperfections of our present government, it is without comparison the best existing, or that ever did exist. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
910:A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful Land, traversing all the seas with the rich production of their Industry. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
911:It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
912:I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
913:I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
914:I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
915:No man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people, to a rational extent. Whatever they can, they will. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
916:Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
917:Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
918:Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
919:The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
920:The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
921:The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
--The Fruit Hunters ~ Thomas Jefferson,#NFDB
922:The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
923:The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
924:There is a fulness of time when men should go, and not occupy too long the ground to which others have a right to advance. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
925:A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
926:A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
927:Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
928:For Heaven's sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
929:For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
930:I feel much alarmed at the prospect of seeing General Jackson President. He is the most unfit man I know for such a place. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
931:I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
932:It is safer to have a whole people respectably enlightened than a few in a high state of science and the many in ignorance. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
933:That one generation of men in civil society have no right to make acts to bind another, is a truth that cannot be confused. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
934:Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
935:I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
936:People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
937:All we can do is to make the best of our friends, love and cherish what is good in them, and keep out of the way what is bad. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
938:Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
939:How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
940:I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
941:It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
942:Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
943:The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
944:The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
945:The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam [to a carriage on wheels] will make a great change in the situation of man. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
946:The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
947:Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
948:How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet! ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
949:If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
950:The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
951:To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
952:When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
953:You are now old enough to know how very important to your future life will be the manner in which you employ your present time ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
954:Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
955:Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
956:«El árbol de la libertad debe ser vigorizado de vez en cuando con la sangre de patriotas y tiranos: es su fertilizante natural» ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
957:Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
958:He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
959:Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
960:I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
961:I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
962:It is false to suggest that Thomas Jefferson or any other Founding Father believed in a legal barrier to God in the public square. ~ Newt Gingrich, #NFDB
963:Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain cool and unruffled under all circumstances. —Thomas Jefferson ~ Jeffrey J Fox, #NFDB
964:The cutting of heads is become so much a la mode, that one is apt to feel of a morning whether their own is on their shoulders. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
965:The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
966:The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. —Thomas Jefferson ~ Clayton M Christensen, #NFDB
967: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, #NFDB
968:Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
969:He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their substance. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
970:If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
971:It is wonderful to me that old men should not be sensible that their minds keep pace with their bodies in the progress of decay. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
972:No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
973:The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
974:The policy of the American government is to leave its citizens free, neither restraining them nor aiding them in their pursuits. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
975:We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication . ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
976:We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
977:A government which can be felt; a government of energy. God send that our country may never have a government, which it can feel. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
978:As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.1 —THOMAS JEFFERSON, July 5, 1775 ~ Jon Meacham, #NFDB
979:Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
980:I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
981:I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
982:I hope the terms of Excellency, Honor, Worship, Esquire, forever disappear from among us... I wish that of Mr. would follow them. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
983:I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
984:The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
985:They [Republicans] say, 'You're too conservative.' Was Thomas Jefferson too conservative? I'm tired of some people calling me wacky. ~ Sharron Angle, #NFDB
986:Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
987: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
988:Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
989: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
990: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
991:Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
992:So now it turns out that Thomas Jefferson was having sex with Sally Hemings while serving in the 101st Airborne during the Vietnam War. ~ Ann Coulter, #NFDB
993:the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to them. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
994:The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
995:Brute animals are the most healthy, and they are exposed to all weather, and of men, those are healthiest who are the most exposed. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
996:Communities should be planned with an eye to the effect on the human spirit of being continually surrounded by a maximum of beauty. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
997:Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give
you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour. ~ Thomas Jefferson,#NFDB
998:Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
999:I sincerely believe the banking institutions having the issuing power of money, are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1000:Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1001: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1002:None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1003:The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1004:The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1005:The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1006:Thomas Jefferson said, “Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. ~ Neil Pasricha, #NFDB
1007:While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1008:A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the world. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1009:Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1010:Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1011:I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1012:If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. —THOMAS JEFFERSON ~ Rick Shenkman, #NFDB
1013:I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1014: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1015:One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1016:probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone. ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
1017:Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1018:The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1019:The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1020:Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1021:If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1022: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1023:It was one of the rules which above all others made Doctr. Franklin the most amiable of men in society, "never to contradict anybody. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1024:My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1025:No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1026:No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1027:Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1028:The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1029:The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1030:The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1031:The idea of formulated 'rights ... comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson ... but from the canon law of the Catholic Church. ~ Thomas E Woods Jr, #NFDB
1032:What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1033:While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1034:Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1035:Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1036:I am convinced that those societies which live without government enjoy in their gen'l mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1037: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1038:I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1039:Not for ourselves alone, but for all humanity... Let us hasten to find the path that leads to liberty, safety, and peace for everyone. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1040:The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. —Thomas Jefferson, Letters, 1790 ~ Jack McDevitt, #NFDB
1041:The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every enmity. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1042:The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood? ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1043:They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1044:When Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence, slaves constituted 40 percent of the population of his home state, Virginia. ~ Ron Chernow, #NFDB
1045:Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1046:He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1047:I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1048:Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1049:The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1050:The contest is not between us and them, but between good and evil, and if those who would fight evil adopt the ways of evil, evil wins. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1051:Was the government to prescribe us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now." - Thomas Jefferson ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1052:Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits? ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1053:While old men feel sensibly enough their own advance in years, they do not sufficiently recollect it in those whom they have seenyoung. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1054:An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1055:I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present state of things. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1056:I find it more than a little disingenuous to act as if keeping slaves was something that set Thomas Jefferson apart from all mankind. ~ Annette Gordon Reed, #NFDB
1057:Learn to be flexible. Thomas Jefferson once said, “In matters of principle, stand like a rock. In matters of taste, swim with the current. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
1058:All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1059:A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1060:Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1061:The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1062:There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1063:we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are leading us to dissolution. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1064:Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1065:Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1066:It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” -Thomas Jefferson ~ Angela Roquet, #NFDB
1067:It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1068:No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1069:Nothing was or is farther from my intentions, than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion, where I have only expressed doubt. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1070:The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1071:The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1072:We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of. ~ Rush D Holt Jr, #NFDB
1073:Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1074:Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1075:The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1076:The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1077:The information of the people at large can alone make them the safe as they are the sole depositary of our political and religious freedom. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1078:The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1079:This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1080:We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1081:By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1082:I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from our works, that our religion must be read. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1083:I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1084: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1085:My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and purehappiness. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1086:There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1087:Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1088: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1089:It is proof of sincerity, which I value above all things; as, between those who practice it, falsehood and malice work their efforts in vain. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1090:My general plan would be to make the States one as to everything connected with foreign nations and several as to everything purely domestic. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1091:Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1092:The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1093:the study of the law is useful in a variety of points of view. it qualifies a man to be useful to himself, to his neighbors, & to the public. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1094: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1095:I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1096:I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1097:In Europe the object is to make the most of their land, labour being abundant: here it is to make the most of our labour, land being abundant. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1098:Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1099:The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1100:Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1101:We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1102:We have the wolf by the ears; and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1103:Always take hold of things by the smooth handle grateful that they are not worse rather than the rough handle, bitter that they are not better. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1104:En cuestiones de estilo, nade con la corriente”, dicen que aconsejaba Thomas Jefferson, pero “en cuestiones de principios, sea sólido como una roca”, ~ Adam Grant, #NFDB
1105:If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1106:I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1107:Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1108:My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent performance of my duty; to avoid attracting notice, and to keep my name out of the newspapers. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1109:The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1110:The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1111:They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its friendships and fortunes. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1112:All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1113:Any woodsman can tell you that in a broken and sundered nest, one can hardly find more than a precious few whole eggs. So it is with the family. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1114:Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1115:How soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the earth were it not for misgovernment and a diversion of his energies to selfish interests. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1116:I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe.... They are nations of eternal war. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1117:I have now the gloomy prospect of retiring from office loaded with serious debts, which will materially affect the tranquility of my retirement. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1118:In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1119:In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1120:Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. (Thomas Jefferson) ~ Ron Chernow, #NFDB
1121:Orang yang membiarkan dirinya berbohong sekali, akan menyadari bahwa lebih mudah berbohong untuk kedua dan ketiga kali sampai menjadi kebiasaan. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1122:The result of your fifty or sixty years of religious reading in the four words: 'Be just and good,' is that in which all our enquiries must end. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1123:We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with self - government. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1124: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1125:I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gaycapital [Paris]. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1126:I leave the world and its affairs to the young and energetic, and resign myself to their care, of whom I have endeavored to take care when young. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1127:I steer my bark with Hope in the head, leaving Fear astern. My hopes, indeed, sometimes fail; but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1128:I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more."
(Letter to John Banister, Jr., June 19, 1787) ~ Thomas Jefferson,#NFDB
1129:Laws ... proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the law-giver, but let the judge be a mere machine. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1130:Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude
from achieving his goal.
Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude. ~ Thomas Jefferson,#NFDB
1131:Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1132:Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. ...I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1133:I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gay capital [Paris]. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1134:I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1135:I like the power given the Legislature to levy taxes, and for that reason solely approve of the greater house being chosen by the people directly. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1136:I never before knew the full value of trees....What would I not give that the trees planted nearest round the house at Monticello were full grown. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1137: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, #NFDB
1138:Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1139:Thomas Jefferson wrote that “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. ~ Edward L Glaeser, #NFDB
1140:Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1141:If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation... to a continuance in union... I have no hesitation in saying, 'let us separate. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1142: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1143:It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1144:Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing essential. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1145:Our minds and hearts are free to believe everything or nothing at all - and it is our duty to protect and perpetuate this sacred culture of freedom. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1146:While learning the language in France a young man's morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of the universe. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1147: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1148:The sickly, weakly, timid man fears the people, and is a Tory by nature. The healthy, strong and bold cherishes them, and is formed a Whig by nature. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1149:We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1150:We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1151:Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1152: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1153:The cement of this union is in the heart blood of every American. I do not believe there is on earth a government established on so immovable a basis. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1154:The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1155:The wisdom of our ages and the blood of our heroes has been devoted to the attainment of trial by jury. It should be the creed of our political faith. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1156:Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1157:But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty of the eye can be enjoyed. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1158:Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1159:Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1160:Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1161:There is not a single crowned head in Europe whose talents or merit would entitle him to be elected a vestryman by the people of any parish in America. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1162:Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother & an instructor. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1163:I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1164:Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1165:Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate our personal moralities. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1166:You will perceive by my preaching that I am growing old: it is the privilege of years, and I am sure you will pardon it from the purity of it's motives. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1167:If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1168:It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1169:It was Thomas Jefferson who said that we should not allow the courts to have a monopoly on the interpretation of what is constitutional and what is not. ~ Walter E Williams, #NFDB
1170:Never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration; never saw even an elemental trait of painting or sculpture. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1171:Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1172:If science produces no better fruits than tyranny... I would rather wish our country to be ignorant, honest and estimable as our neighbouring savages are. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1173:Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1174:Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise, and the weather shall be little regarded. If the body is feeble, the mind will not be strong. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1175: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1176:So much of the presidency is a matter of standing in the path of a Newsham Engine for Quenching Fires, opening one's mouth, and attempting to get a drink. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1177:The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1178:There are other places at which ... the laws have said there shall be towns; but Nature has said there shall not, and they remain unworthy of enumeration. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1179:How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked. ~ Burl Ives, #NFDB
1180:If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1181:It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is to say, that the means follow their end. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1182: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1183:Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1184:Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1185: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1186:Religion, morality, and knowledge are necessary for good government... Therefore schools and the means of educating the people should always be encouraged. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1187:Thomas Jefferson declared, stating that he was speaking on behalf of the other founding fathers, ...(that) we should build a wall between the church and state. ~ Jimmy Carter, #NFDB
1188:Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1189: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1190:I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1191:I knew Thomas Jefferson. He was a friend of mine. And believe me, you are no Thomas Jefferson. (at 1992 Republican party convention, referring to Bill Clinton) ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
1192:I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1193:No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1194:The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken national efforts. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1195:The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1196:When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives us time for anything. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1197: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1198:Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1199:The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1200:He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1201: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1202:The eyes of our citizens are not sufficiently open to the true cause of our distress. They ascribe them to everything but their true cause, the banking system ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1203:The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1204:The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1205:[An] act of the Congress of the United States... which assumes powers... not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void and of no force. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1206:I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1207:No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1208: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson,#NFDB
1209:Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1210:The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1211:This is the real reason Thomas Jefferson owned a Koran. No proto-multiculturalist, he simply wanted to understand the threat jihadism posed to his young nation. ~ Sebastian Gorka, #NFDB
1212:. Thomas Jefferson had paid Meriwether Lewis to hide the map, to keep a record of its location but not reveal to the world what the second president had possession ~ Nick Thacker, #NFDB
1213:What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1214:When an instrument admits two constructions, the one safe, the other dangerous, the one precise, the other indefinite, I prefer that which is safe and precise. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1215:Every Christian sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient proof of the being of god. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1216:Every constitution..., and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years [a generation]. If it be enforced longer, it is anact of force, and not of right. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1217: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1218:Nothing but a necessity invincible by any other means can justify ... a prostitution of laws, which constitute the pillars of our whole system of jurisprudence. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1219:We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is a practicable government. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1220:We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1221:A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1222:I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1223:No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, no culture comparable to that of the garden...But though an old man, I am but a young gardener. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1224:I believe from what I have lately seen that we should be substantially safe were our Citizens Armed, but we have not as many Arms as we have Enemies in the State. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1225:If the happiness of the mass of mankind can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1226: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1227:I would observe to you that what is called style in writing or speaking is formed very early in life while the imagination is warm, and impressions are permanent. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1228:Men of high learning and abilities are few in every country; and by taking in those who are not so, the able part of the body have their hands tied by the unable. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1229:The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1230:The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1231:The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1232:A community of small farmers... land property owners, will be the only assurance that the freedom our republic offers will be guaranteed to each and every citizen. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1233:Eliot tried to popularize Thomas Jefferson and Socrates, too, but people couldn’t remember from one visit to the next who they were. "Which one is which?" they’d say. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
1234:I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1235:I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the reputation and the favor which bring him into it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1236:Let it be signified to me through any channelthat the possession of the Floridas would be desirable to the United States, andin sixty days it will be accomplished. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1237:Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1238:Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the ultimate object of their aim. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1239:The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1240:The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example. ~ Robert Trout, #NFDB
1241:What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1242: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1243:Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to count on any thing but annuals. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1244:The States should be urged to concede to the General Government, with a saving of chartered rights, the exclusive power of establishing banks of discount for paper. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1245:Thomas Jefferson said, The tree of liberty must be fertilized from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Yeah and I heard that and thought, I'm out! ~ Christopher Titus, #NFDB
1246:Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1247:A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1248:But every state, says an inquisitor, has established some religion. No two, say I, have established the same. Is this a proof of the infallibility of establishments? ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1249:How did Jefferson feel about the people of his day who were the equivalent of our modern day penecostals? You know, those revelation reveling tongue speaking idiots. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1250: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1251:Nothing but good can result from an exchange of information and opinions between those whose circumstances and morals admit no doubt of the integrity of their views. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1252:Printers shall be liable to legal prosecution for printing and publishing false facts injurious to the party prosecuting: but they shall be under no other restraint. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1253:THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT rests on three political ideas—“these truths,” Thomas Jefferson called them—political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. ~ Jill Lepore, #NFDB
1254:The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his (sic)patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1255:The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1256:Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1257:Heliotrope. To be sowed in the spring. A delicious flower, but I suspect it must be planted in boxes and kept in the house in the winter. The smell rewards the care. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1258:I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1259:No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1260:If all be true that I do think, there are five reasons we should drink. Good friends, good times, or being dry, or lest we should be by and by, or any other reason why ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1261:If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors without suffering the State to be troubled with it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1262:I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, "that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living": that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1263:Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1264:Take painsto write a neat round, plain hand, and you will find it a great convenience through life to write a small and compact hand as well as a fair and legible one. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1265:The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that they should have pleaded it so long in vain. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1266:All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief with chains of the Constitution. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1267:Cherish therefore the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention.1 Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them. —THOMAS JEFFERSON ~ Jon Meacham, #NFDB
1268:He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1269:Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness depends. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1270:The reward of esteem, respect and gratitude [is] due to those who devote their time and efforts to render the youths of every successive age fit governors for the next. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1271:To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1272:Big banks are more dangerous than standing armies, and the practice of borrowing and spending money to be paid back by the next generation is stealing from their future. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1273:Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of people that these liberties are the gift of God? ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1274:From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which I find healthful to my body, mind, and affairs. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1275:I am a real Christian, that is to say, a cisciple of the doctrines of Jesus. I have little doubt that our whole country will soon be rallied to the unity of our Creator. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1276:I deem no government safe which is under the vassalage of any self-constituted authorities, or any other authority than that of the nation, or its regular functionaries. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1277:Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1278:no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect towards supporting free & good government. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1279:The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption's of time and party, its members would become despots. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1280: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1281:...is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? ...the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1282:Our ancient laws expressly declare that those who are but delegates themselves shall not delegate to others powers which require judgment and integrity in their exercise. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1283: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1284:The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1285:The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1286:this interesting subject, which, if the condition of man is to be progressively ameliorated, as we fondly hope and believe, is to be the chief instrument in effecting it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1287:Thomas Jefferson High
School [..] His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one of
the world’s greatest theoreticians on the subject of human liberty. ~ Kurt Vonnegut,#NFDB
1288:To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or occupations will fail in attempting. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1289:Ultimately, it’s easy to imagine Thomas Jefferson as an early American George Costanza, a seething nebbish quick to take umbrage but never quite able to respond convincingly. ~ Jon Mooallem, #NFDB
1290:Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1291:Freedom has been privatized - it is how you dress, what your sexual orientation is, choosing your own life. That's fine. But that is not what Thomas Jefferson was talking about. ~ Eric Foner, #NFDB
1292:I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1293: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1294:Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote for representatives for that county to the legislature. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1295:I do not like [in the new Federal Constitution] the omission of a Bill of Rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for... protection against standing armies ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1296:I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1297:It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1298:My religious reading has long been confined to the moral branch of religion, which is the same in all religions; while in that branch which consists of dogmas, all differ[. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1299:The object of walking is to relax the mind. You should therefore not permit yourself even to think while you walk. But divert your attention by the objects surrounding you. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1300: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1301:A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. In order to flourish, the tree of Liberty needs the blood of patriots and tyrants. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1302:I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1303:I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1304:In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1305:It has been thought that the people are not competent electors of judges learned in the law. But I do not know this to be true, and, if doubtful, we should follow principle. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1306:State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1307:War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1308:Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1309:all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1310:And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1311:I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1312: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1313:Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1314:It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1315:No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1316:... the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced or knew that such a character existed. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1317:The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1318:The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which could not excite them through any other organ. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1319:There was no contradiction in the bold claim made by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal” if Africans were not really people. ~ Michelle Alexander, #NFDB
1320:This ball of liberty, I believe most piously, is now so well in motion that it will roll round the globe. at least the enlightened part of it, for light & liberty go together. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1321:Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1322: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1323:As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1324:I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism. If ever man worshipped a false god, he did. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1325:If thinking men would have the courage to think for themselves, and to speak what they think, it would be found they do not differ in religious opinions as much as is supposed. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1326:No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question is not what we wish, but what is practicable. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1327:[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch of the same government. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1328:When describing the University of Virginia: Here, We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1329:Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master! ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1330:for the present we may groupe the sciences into Professorships as follows, subject however to be changed according to the qualifications of the persons we may be able to engage. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1331:Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University of Virginia. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1332:I am convinced our own happiness requires that we should continue to mix with the world, and to keep pace with it as it goes. " - Wise words from Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826). ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1333:I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of the issue where reason is left free to exert her force. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1334: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.
-Thomas Jefferson ~ Thomas Jefferson,#NFDB
1335:I thank heaven that the 4th. of July is over. It is always a day of great fatigue to me, and of some embarrassments from improper intrusions and some from unintended exclusions. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1336:Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1337:Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned to the discretion of avarice and of swindlers. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1338:The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of rulers not subject to their control at short periods. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1339:Thomas Jefferson helped the Marquis de Lafayette draft a declaration,” Simon blurts. “Mr. Spier, memorizing the Hamilton soundtrack is not going to save you on the AP Euro exam. ~ Becky Albertalli, #NFDB
1340:Those who have once got an ascendancy, and possessed themselves of all the resources of the nation, their revenues and offices, have immense means for retaining their advantage. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1341:It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. ~ Thomas Jefferson, Query 17 in Notes on the State of Virginia (1781-1785), #NFDB
1342:Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1343: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1344:Thomas Jefferson’s resignation as secretary of state on December 31, 1793. The Virginian had failed to eject Hamilton from the cabinet and had lost the contest for Washington’s favor. ~ Ron Chernow, #NFDB
1345:Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1346:To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1347:A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1348:As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other time to Mathematics, avoiding company as the bane of all progress. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1349: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1350:[It is a] happy truth that man is capable of self-government, and only rendered otherwise by the moral degradation designedly superinduced on him by the wicked acts of his tyrant. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1351:Nimic nu îl poate opri pe omul cu o atitudine mentală corectă să îşi îndeplinească scopul Nimic din lumea aceasta nu îl poate ajuta pe omul care are o atitudine greşită. THOMAS JEFFERSON ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1352:The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity and individual happiness are so much to depend. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1353:The President is bound to stop at the limits prescribed by our Constitution and law to the authorities in his hands, [and this] would apply in an occasion of peace as well as war. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1354:To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1355:And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1356:If I could not go to heaven with but a party, I would not go there at all. Therefore, I am not of the party of federalists. But I am much further from that of the anti-federalists. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1357:Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1358:The most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1359:They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1360:It is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land. The small landholders are the most precious part of a state. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1361: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1362:Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced me that this would be very mischievous. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1363:People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. ~ Sharron Angle, #NFDB
1364:The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1365:If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1366:If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the truth, either in religion, law, or politics. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1367:I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1368:The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only by being more unintelligible. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1369:I enclose to you a copy of the declaration of independence as agreed to by the House, and also, as originally framed. You will judge whether it is the better or worse for the Critics. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1370:Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to extend you hand to save another, lest you should sink yourself. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1371:Shake hands with Pain, give greeting unto Grief, Those angels in disguise, and thy glad soul From height to height, from star to shining star, Shall climb and claim blest immortality. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1372:The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of the first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country. The latter, never useful. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1373:The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws, and where every man may read them for himself. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1374:A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1375:But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1376:Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1377:Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and importers led by Paul, the first great corrupter of the teaching of Jesus. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1378:Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1379:What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1380:[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1381:Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1382:In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1383:It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to preserve our self-government if we will but think so. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1384:No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings of those committed to their charge. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1385:We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1386:[We should be] determined... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government... in which alone we see liberty, safety and happiness. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1387:I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses, nor pursue measures by which they may profit, and then profit by their measures. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1388:It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that [a society without government, as among our Indians] is not the best. But I believe it to be inconsistent with any great degree of population. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1389: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1390: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? ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1391:I was reading a lot of Thomas Jefferson at the time, and Jefferson said that every 20 years, if one party has stayed in power, it's your obligation as an American to vote the other party in. ~ Dennis Hopper, #NFDB
1392:Men possessing minds of the first order and who have had opportunities of being known and of acquiring the general confidence do not abound in any country beyond the wants of the country. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1393:The expedition of Messrs. Lewis & Clarke for exploring the river Missouri, & the best communication from that to the Pacific ocean, has had all the success which could have been expected. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1394:The physician is happy in the attachment of the families in which he practices. All think he has saved one of them, and he finds himself everywhere a welcome guest, a home in every house. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1395:Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1396:If anything pass in a religious meeting seditiously and contrary to the public peace, let it be punished in the same manner and no otherwise than as if it had happened in a fair or market. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1397:I rejoice when I hear of young men of virtue and talents, worthy to receive and likely to preserve the splendid inheritance of self- government, which we have acquired and shaped for them. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1398:Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1399:It is not the policy of the government in America to give aid to works of any kind. They let things take their natural course without help or impediment, which is generally the best policy. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1400:life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the temper, chears our spirits, and promotes health. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1401:[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it's power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of theirvirtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity! ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1402:If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what one so cheap to those of whose system of politics morality makes no part? ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1403:Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings of wealth against the ascendency of the people. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1404:Nothing is so engaging as the little domestic cares into which you appear to be entering, and as to reading it is useful for onlyfilling up the chinks of more useful and healthy occupations. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1405:That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1406:The people are not always well-informed, but is better that they have misconceptions that make them restless than that they be lethargic-for lethargy in the people means death for republics. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1407:Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1408:If we could believe that Jesus...countenanced the follies, falsehoods and charlatanisms which his biographers father on him, ...the conclusion would be irresistible...that he was an imposter. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1409:It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1410:man who felt no need to placate Thomas Jefferson or James Madison had to grovel before the raffish James Reynolds, whom he later described bitterly as “an obscure, unimportant, and profligate man. ~ Ron Chernow, #NFDB
1411:My most earnest wish is to see the republican element of popular control pushed to the maximum of its practicable exercise. I shall then believe that our government may be pure and perpetual. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1412:I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1413:On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1414:The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1415:Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our Nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow Americans, this is our time. Let us embrace it. ~ William J Clinton, #NFDB
1416:With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, andto need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1417: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1418:I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1419:I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
1420:We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1421:When sins are dear to us we are too prone to slide into them again. The act of repentance itself is often sweetened with the thought that it clears our account for a repetition of the same sin. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1422:Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1423:Every man's reason is his own rightful umpire. This principle, with that of acquiescence in the will of the majority, will preserve us free and prosperous as long as they are sacredly observed. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1424:Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1425:… the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1426:This is perhaps the most important statement on religion ever made. It clarified the intent of the founders of the constitution irrespective of the attempts of modern day religious revisionists. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1427:We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1428:I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1429:If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1430:I served with General Washington in die Legislature of Virginia...and...with Doctor Franklin in Congress. I never heard neither of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1431:[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1432:[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1433:Truth and reason are eternal. They have prevailed. And they will eternally prevail; however, in times and places they may be overborne for a while by violence, military, civil, or ecclesiastical. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1434:I am not afraid of the priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries, of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering, without being able to give me one moment of pain. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1435:I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the being worshipped by many who think themselves Christians. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1436:Rejecting all organs of informationbut my senses, I rid myself of the Pyrrhonisms with which an indulgence in speculations hyperphysical and antiphysical so uselessly occupy and disquiet the mind. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1437:The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious beliefs than they are dependent upon our thoughts about geometry or physics! ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1438:Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1439:A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1440:A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1441:I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions...but I know also that laws and constitutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind..... ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1442:If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, [then and only then will truth]prevail over fanaticism. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1443:I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all, find themselves securely established in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and happiness. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1444:It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1445:It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one is three; and yet that the one is not three, and the three are not one. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1446:So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1447:The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1448:Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1449:I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1450:I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in their times. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1451:No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1452:Truth can stand by itself...If there be but one right [religion], and [Christianity] that one, we should wish to see the nine hundred and ninety-nine wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1453:Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1454:Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it into sects of inextinguishable hatred for one another. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1455:Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1456:I believe in both a creative and personal God, a divinely ordered universe, that man has an innate moral sense, and that Jesus was a great moral teacher, perhaps the greatest the world has witnessed. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1457:Look at Thomas Jefferson. The guy had illegitimate kids in the 1700s, and they caught him last year. If you cheat on your wife and cover it up for 200 years, you're pretty much thinking you're home free. ~ Greg Giraldo, #NFDB
1458:Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of nominal money with which their avarice deluges us. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1459:The provisions we have made [for our government] are such as please ourselves; they answer the substantial purposes of government and of justice, and other purposes than these should not be answered. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1460:To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. — Thomas Jefferson ~ Boston T Party, #NFDB
1461:Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1462:I deem it the duty of every man to devote a certain portion of his income for charitable purposes; and that it is his further duty to see it so applied and to do the most good for which it is capable. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1463:I may err in my measures, but never shall deflect from the intention to fortify the public liberty by every possible means, and to put it out of the power of the few to riot on the labors of the many. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1464: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1465:In the New Testament, Thomas Jefferson cut out everything that was mystical, magical, miracle - physically with scissors - and then pasted in all that remained, such as Jesus's Sermon on the Mount. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson, #NFDB
1466:I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom, and happiness. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1467: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, #NFDB
1468:Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government... ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1469:Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1470:It is highly interesting to our country, and it is the duty of its functionaries, to provide that every citizen in it should receive an education proportioned to the condition and pursuits of his life. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1471:My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1472:Nothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger successors the honors they can no longer earn, and the duties they can no longer perform. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1473:Of distinction by birth or badge, [Americans] had no more idea than they had of the mode of existence in the moon or planets. They had heard only that there were such, and knew that they must be wrong. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1474:Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions of the day, assured that the public approbation will in the end be with us. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1475:To make us one nation as to foreign concerns, and keep us distinct in Domestic ones gives the outline of the proper division of powers between the general [national] and particular [state] governments. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1476:We are not immortal ourselves, my friend; how can we expect our enjoyments to be so? We have no rose without its thorn; no pleasure without alloy. It is the law of our existence; and we must acquiesce. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1477:what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil History; Ethics. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1478:A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia ~ Mercy Otis Warren, #NFDB
1479:A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity that ever were written. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1480:But of all the views of this law [universal education] none is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people the safe, as they are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1481:I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House-- with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
1482:The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1483:Thomas Jefferson once said. He said , "We should never judge a President by his age, only by his works." And ever since he told me that, I've stopped worrying. There are those who say I've stopped working. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
1484:When you are doubting whether a thing is worth the trouble of going to see, recollect that you will never again be so near it. You may repent not having seen it, but you can never repent having seen it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1485:You have never by a word or a deed given me one moment's uneasiness; on the contrary I have felt perpetual gratitude to heaven forhaving given me, in you, a source of so much pure and unmixed happiness. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1486:I do love this people [the French] with all my heart, and think that with a better religion and a better form of government and their present governors their condition and country would be most enviable. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1487:If Thomas Jefferson was the idealist, and George Washington the leader, and James Madison the architect, Samuel Adams the community organizer, then Franklin would have been the Yoda of the founding generation. ~ Matt Kibbe, #NFDB
1488:I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make, be the difference of price what it may. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1489:I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is less wealth there, there is more freedom, more ease, and less misery. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1490:Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1491:When Thomas Jefferson sat on the steps of the White House and, with a pair of scissors, began to cut out all portions of the Bible that he felt were mythic nonsense, he was expressing a rational point of view. ~ Ken Wilber, #NFDB
1492: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? ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1493:If the question [before justices of the peace] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those in which the judges may be suspected of bias, the jury undertake to decide both law and fact. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1494:Of all the errors which can possibly be committed to the education of youth, that of sending them to Europe is the most fatal. I see [clearly] that no American should come to Europe under 30 years of age. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1495:The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes, which you say you have heard insisted on by some, I assure you was never mine. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1496:The foundation on which (our government is) built is the natural equality of man, the denial of every pre-eminence but that annexed to legal office, and particularly the denial of a pre-eminence by birth. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1497:The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1498:When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1499:And, in general, that branch which is to act ultimately and without appeal on any law is the rightful expositor of the validity of the law, uncontrolled by the opinions of the other coordinate authorities. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1500:An industrious farmer occupies a more dignified place in the scale of beings...than a lazy lounger...too proud to work, and drawing out a miserable existence by eating on that surplus of other men's labor. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
2.02 - Habit 2 Begin with the End in Mind, #The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, #Stephen Covey, #unset
"Our peculiar security," said Thomas Jefferson, "is in the possession of a written Constitution."
A personal mission statement based on correct principles becomes the same kind of standard for an individual. It becomes a personal constitution, the basis for making major, life-directing decisions, the basis for making daily decisions in the midst of the circumstances and emotions that affect our lives. It empowers individuals with the same timeless strength in the midst of change.
3-5 Full Circle, #unset, #Anonymous, #Various
To clarify the issue, 1et us make the improbable assumption that the Soviet authorities made this second claim and that, with their full cooperation, it was demonstrated by outside investigators to be accurate. The first conclusion would then be that the Soviet Union is moving toward realization of Thomas Jefferson's model of government: government by what he called the natural aristocracy. "I agree", he wrote to John Adams, "that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents . . . The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and the government of society."28 (If Communists were now to claim that by classless society they mean government by the natural aristocracy we would, by taking to pen and ink, have started to settle the question.)
The second conclusion would be the one predicted by Unified Science: The fairest and most objective tests will show virtue to be quite evenly distributed among all social Strata. But they will show a great skewing of talent-distribution, where talent is predominantly identified with abstraction ceilings. (This skewing occurs both empirically and ex hypothesi: in Unified Science the distribution of social Strata is based upon the distribution of abstraction ceilings, as shown in Figures IV-2 and IV-4.)
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28. Padover, Saul K., ed., Thomas Jefferson on Democracy, New American Library, New York, 1946, p. 82.
29. These tests will of course also show the existence and the size of what Thomas Jefferson called the artficial aristocracy. "There is also an artificial aristocracy," he wrote in the same letter, "founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents."28 We probably can, however, go a great deal deeper: with computer help we probably can show various degrees of talents, and degrees of diverse temperaments. Also significant combinations of these degrees and kinds of innate talent and virtue or viciousness, as the case may be. These we can then match with appropriate schools and other kinds of training.
30. The giant corporations and monopolistic trade unions are fully as disintegrative, intensifying the system's malfunction (see Mintz, Morton, and J. S. Cohen, with a preface by Ralph Nader, "America, Inc.--Who Owns and Operates the United States," Dial Press, New York, 197I.)
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Stratum, social, human The human individual's social Stratum is originally determined by his parents and other relatives. His potential Stratum is mainly determined by his ontogenetic ceiling (q.v. ) . Hence he may move socially up or down during his lifetime. Thomas Jefferson distinguished the highest social Stratum as "artificial", the highest potential as "natural" aristocracy. These terms, however, are noisy. C.f. Noise, ontogeny, ceiling of; Stratum, potential.
Stratum, social, human The human individual's social Stratum is originally determined by his parents and other relatives. His potential Stratum is mainly determined by his ontogenetic ceiling (q.v. ) . Hence he may move socially up or down during his lifetime. Thomas Jefferson distinguished the highest social Stratum as "artificial", the highest potential as "natural" aristocracy. These terms, however, are noisy. C.f. Noise, ontogeny, ceiling of; Stratum, potential.
Sub-strata (plural of Stratum, written with a capital S) The ontogenetic layers or levels in a system whose ceiling number (q.v.) determines the number of the Stratum in question. (See Strata). E.g., in plants, animals or persons the ontogenetic stage at the time in question. The number of its ontogenetic stages at maturity is its Stratum number (q.v.). See Number, characteristic.
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1. Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson, President Jefferson ::: (3rd President of the United States; chief drafter of the Declaration of Independence; made the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and sent out the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore it (1743-1826))
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powers -- Aspiration - Beauty - Concentration - Effort - Faith - Force - Grace - inspiration -Presence - Purity - Sincerity - surrender
difficulties -- cowardice - depres. - distract. - distress - dryness - evil - fear - forget - habits - impulse - incapacity - irritation - lost - mistakes - obscur. - problem - resist - sadness - self-deception - shame - sin - suffering
practices -- Lucid Dreaming - meditation - project - programming - Prayer - read Savitri - studysubjects -- CS - Cybernetics - Game Dev - Integral Theory - Integral Yoga - Kabbalah - Language - Philosophy - Poetry - Zen
6.01 books -- KC - ABA - Null -Savitri - SA O TAOC -SICP - The Gospel of SRK - TIC - The Library of Babel -TLD -TSOY - TTYODAS - TSZ - WOTM II
8 unsorted / add here -- Always - Everyday - Verbs