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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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It would not be for the public good to have [a majority in Congress of one party] greater [than] two to one.
Thomas Jefferson
The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.
Thomas Jefferson
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.
Thomas Jefferson
We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them
Thomas Jefferson
Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap it will be dear to you.
Thomas Jefferson
From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.
Thomas Jefferson
I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.
Thomas Jefferson
Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be.
Thomas Jefferson
I believe from what I have lately seen that we should be substantially safe were our Citizens Armed, but we have not as many Arms as we have Enemies in the State.
Thomas Jefferson
In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson
As government grows, freedom recedes.
Thomas Jefferson
A noiseless course, not meddling with the affairs of others, unattractive of notice, is a mark that society is going on in happiness. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy.
Thomas Jefferson
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
Thomas Jefferson
The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion.
Thomas Jefferson
The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone.
Thomas Jefferson
God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion... We have had thirteen States independent for eleven years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half, for each State. What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion.
Thomas Jefferson
Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
Thomas Jefferson
Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions of the day, assured that the public approbation will in the end be with us.
Thomas Jefferson
Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power by others within their limits. Without this right, they would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever might exercise this right of judgment for them.
Thomas Jefferson
Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you.
Thomas Jefferson
