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.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Victory and defeat are each of the same price.
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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
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It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.
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I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
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An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
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Cultivators are the most valuable citizens…they are tied to their country.
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Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.
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Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.
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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
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Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
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Every generation needs a new revolution.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it easier to do it a second time.
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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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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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.
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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.
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Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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I find that the harder I nap, the more luck I seem to have.
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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.
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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.
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The hole and the patch should be commensurate.
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Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.
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Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the general progress of the human mind.
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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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