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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 only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it.
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
Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
Thomas Jefferson
My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave consequences to him who has the disposal of them.
Thomas Jefferson
I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart.
Thomas Jefferson
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
Thomas Jefferson
If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.
Thomas Jefferson
[n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired] This belief carried no more personal imputation than the belief of Socrates that he was under the care and admonition of a guardian demon. And how many of our wisest men still believe in the reality of these inspirations while perfectly sane on all other subjects
Thomas Jefferson
We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
Thomas Jefferson
My religious reading has long been confined to the moral branch of religion, which is the same in all religions while in that branch which consists of dogmas, all differ[.
Thomas Jefferson
Truth between candid minds can never do harm.
Thomas Jefferson
ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them.
Thomas Jefferson
Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their opposites, peace, economy, and riddance of public debt, believing that these were the high road to public as well as private prosperity and happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.
Thomas Jefferson
The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.
Thomas Jefferson
The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself.
Thomas Jefferson
A mind always employed is always happy.
Thomas Jefferson
A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful Land, traversing all the seas with the rich production of their Industry.
Thomas Jefferson
The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.
Thomas Jefferson
I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.
Thomas Jefferson
