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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. - Thomas Jefferson
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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
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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
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. - Thomas Jefferson
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. - Thomas Jefferson
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The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. - Thomas Jefferson
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Power is not alluring to pure minds. - Thomas Jefferson
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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
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. - Thomas Jefferson
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While only the third U.S. President, Thomas Jefferson was the first to begin shaking hands instead of bowing! He was also the first U.S. President to be inaugurated in Washington D.C.
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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 - Thomas Jefferson
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No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. - Thomas Jefferson
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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
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No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms. - Thomas Jefferson
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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
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Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. - Thomas Jefferson
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I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary. - Thomas Jefferson
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The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. -... Read More
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Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. - Thomas Jefferson
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. - Thomas Jefferson
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War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. - Thomas Jefferson
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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. - Thomas Jefferson
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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. - Thomas Jefferson
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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
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Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto. - Thomas Jefferson
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Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it. - Thomas Jefferson
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Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast. - Thomas Jefferson
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I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us. - Thomas Jefferson
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It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must tr... Read More
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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle. - Thomas Jefferson
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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to... Read More
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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
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. - Thomas Jefferson
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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. - Thomas Jefferson
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I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind. - Thomas Jefferson
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. - Thomas Jefferson
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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. - Thomas Jefferson
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The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world. - Thomas Jefferson
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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
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There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me. - Thomas Jefferson
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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
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Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism. - Thomas Jefferson
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The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them. - Thomas Jefferson
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Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. - Thomas Jefferson
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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. - Thomas Jefferson
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How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. - Thomas Jefferson
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The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American. - Thomas Jefferson
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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
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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. - Thomas Jefferson
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other. - Thomas Jefferson
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An injured friend is the bitterest of foes. - Thomas Jefferson
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