Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Thomas Jefferson was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.

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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
– Thomas Jefferson

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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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
– Thomas Jefferson

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I find that the harder I nap, the more luck I seem to have.
– Thomas Jefferson

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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
– Thomas Jefferson

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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
– Thomas Jefferson

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Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the general progress of the human mind.
– Thomas Jefferson

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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 can be done if we are always doing.
– Thomas Jefferson

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The hole and the patch should be commensurate.
– Thomas Jefferson

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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

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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

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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
– Thomas Jefferson

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Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
– Thomas Jefferson

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Cultivators are the most valuable citizens…they are tied to their country.
– Thomas Jefferson

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Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to it’s liberty and interests by the most lasting bands
– Thomas Jefferson

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Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.
– Thomas Jefferson

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Never spend your money before you have it.
– 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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Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
– Thomas Jefferson

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Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.
– 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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
– Thomas Jefferson

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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it easier to do it a second time.
– Thomas Jefferson

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Victory and defeat are each of the same price.
– Thomas Jefferson

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An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
– Thomas Jefferson

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