Thomas Jefferson quotes - page 4

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. (Thomas Jefferson)
He who knows best knows how little he knows. View quote
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. View quote
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. View quote
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe. View quote
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. View quote
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people. View quote
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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. View quote
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Were we to be directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread. View quote
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Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfil. The knowledge of character possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect. View quote
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If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained Those by death are few by resignations, none. Usually quoted Few die and none resign. (Thomas Jefferson)
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? View quote
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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. View quote
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I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. View quote
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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. View quote
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One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. View quote
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A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their magistrate. View quote
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Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do. View quote
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If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter. View quote
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History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny. View quote
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I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. (Thomas Jefferson)
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none. View quote
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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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