Selected quotes · 53
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“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
Thomas JeffersonTime
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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 JeffersonCreativity
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“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”
Thomas JeffersonFriendship
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“A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.”
Thomas JeffersonAction
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“Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.”
Thomas JeffersonFriendship
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“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.”
Thomas JeffersonFreedom
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“There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.”
Thomas JeffersonWisdom
№ 08
“It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.”
Thomas JeffersonHappiness
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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 JeffersonGrowth
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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 may be done if we are always doing.”
Thomas JeffersonAction
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“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.”
Thomas JeffersonFreedom
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“Never spend your money before you have earned it.”
Thomas JeffersonWisdom
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“Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.”
Thomas JeffersonAction
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“Power is not alluring to pure minds.”
Thomas JeffersonMindset
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“I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.”
Thomas JeffersonFriendship
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“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”
Thomas JeffersonSelf-belief
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“Never spend money before you have it.”
Thomas JeffersonWisdom
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“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”
Thomas JeffersonFriendship
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“One man with courage is a majority.”
Thomas JeffersonCourage
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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 JeffersonPatience
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“I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.”
Thomas JeffersonCourage
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“I cannot live without books.”
Thomas JeffersonLife
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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 JeffersonCreativity
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“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
Thomas JeffersonFreedom
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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 JeffersonFriendship
№ 26
“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.”
Thomas JeffersonWisdom
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“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 JeffersonTime
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“I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.”
Thomas JeffersonCourage
№ 29
“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.”
Thomas JeffersonFailure
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“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
Thomas JeffersonFailure
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“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.”
Thomas JeffersonFaith
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“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”
Thomas JeffersonHappiness
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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 JeffersonJustice
№ 34
“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”
Thomas JeffersonMindset
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“Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.”
Thomas JeffersonFreedom
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“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
Thomas JeffersonWisdom
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“When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.”
Thomas JeffersonWisdom
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“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
Thomas JeffersonWisdom
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“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”
Thomas JeffersonFreedom
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“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.”
Thomas JeffersonFaith
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“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.”
Thomas JeffersonAction
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“Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.”
Thomas JeffersonJustice
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“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
Thomas JeffersonAction
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“It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.”
Thomas JeffersonWisdom
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“Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.”
Thomas JeffersonTime
№ 46
“Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.”
Thomas JeffersonCourage
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“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.”
Thomas JeffersonCourage
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“The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.”
Thomas JeffersonFailure
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“I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.”
Thomas JeffersonSuccess
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“Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.”
Thomas JeffersonHappiness
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“One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.”
Thomas JeffersonWisdom
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“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
Thomas JeffersonFailure
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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 JeffersonWisdom