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Thomas Jefferson Quotes Page 4Thomas Jefferson's quotes gave me the opportunity to look directly into the eyes of history. This look into history was invaluable, constructive, beneficial, and useful. I believe these Thomas Jefferson quotes are some of the strongest quotations from a past President. Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
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.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
No government ought to be without censors, and where the press is free no one ever will.
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
Thomas Jefferson Quotes Page 1 None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.
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.
Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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