Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Thomas Jefferson quotes, Thomas Jefferson sayings, and Thomas Jefferson proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and 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
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A government big enough to give you everything you need is government big enough to take away everything you have.Thomas Jefferson
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The government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.Thomas Jefferson
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The second office of the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.Thomas Jefferson
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.Thomas Jefferson
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Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.Thomas Jefferson
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From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood and of tyrants and patriots.Thomas Jefferson
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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.Thomas Jefferson
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From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.Thomas Jefferson
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A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.Thomas Jefferson
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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
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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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The ground I have already passed over enables me to see my way into that which is before me.Thomas Jefferson
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But all theory must lead to experience, and every constitution has its own laws.Thomas Jefferson
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Forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-reading.Thomas Jefferson
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I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.Thomas Jefferson
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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.Thomas Jefferson
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Go on then in doing with your pen what in other times was done with the sword: shew that reformation is more practicable by operating on the mind than on the body of man.Thomas Jefferson
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A walk in Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.Thomas Jefferson
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France is every man's second country.Thomas Jefferson
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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
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Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.Thomas Jefferson
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When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.Thomas Jefferson
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There is one spot on the globe, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans.Thomas Jefferson
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.Thomas Jefferson
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.Thomas Jefferson
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.Thomas Jefferson
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The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.Thomas Jefferson
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Those who labor on the earth are the chosen people of God if he ever had a chosen people.Thomas Jefferson
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual, he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. Thomas Jefferson