Thomas Jefferson quotes - page 3

Never spend your money before you have earned it. (Thomas Jefferson)
Always take hold of things by the smooth handle. View quote
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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. View quote
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We rarely repent of having eaten too little. View quote
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. View quote
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Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. View quote
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Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. View quote
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I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. View quote
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. View quote
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An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. View quote
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Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the general progress of the human mind. (Thomas Jefferson)
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But 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. View quote
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I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. View quote
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All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. View quote
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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever. View quote
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It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. View quote
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History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. View quote
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To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical. View quote
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Our liberty depends on freedom of the press, And that cannot be limited without being lost. View quote
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few. View quote
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. (Thomas Jefferson)
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. View quote
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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. View quote
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. View quote
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes. View quote
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