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The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.
Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson
Age: 83 †
Born: 1743
Born: April 2
Died: 1826
Died: July 4
3Rd U.S. President
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The doctrines of Jesus are simple and tend all to the happiness of man, that there is only one God and God is perfect. That God and man are one. That to love God with all your heart, and your neighbor as yourself, is the sum of religion. These are the great points on which I endeavor to reform and live my life.
Thomas Jefferson
The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.
Thomas Jefferson
It is better to have no ideas than false ones.
Thomas Jefferson
An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.
Thomas Jefferson
No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations.
Thomas Jefferson
Where the principle of difference [between political parties] is as substantial and as strongly pronounced as between the republicans and the monocrats of our country, I hold it as honorable to take a firm and decided part and as immoral to pursue a middle line, as between the parties of honest men and rogues, into which every country is divided.
Thomas Jefferson
An acre of the best ground for hemp, is to be selected and sewn in hemp and be kept for a permanent hemp patch.
Thomas Jefferson
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
Thomas Jefferson
The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.
Thomas Jefferson
The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in thirteen states in the course of eleven years, is but one for each state in a century and a half. No country should be so long without one. Nor will any degree of power in the hands of government prevent insurrections.
Thomas Jefferson
I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
Thomas Jefferson
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. The Europeans value themselves on having subdued the horse to the uses of man but I doubt whether we have not lost more than we have gained, by the use of this animal.
Thomas Jefferson
History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
Thomas Jefferson
Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.
Thomas Jefferson
The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.
Thomas Jefferson
Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.
Thomas Jefferson
Do not write me studied letters but ramble as you please.
Thomas Jefferson
To make us one nation as to foreign concerns, and keep us distinct in Domestic ones gives the outline of the proper division of powers between the general [national] and particular [state] governments.
Thomas Jefferson
Health is value greater than studying.
Thomas Jefferson
