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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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I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing.
Thomas Jefferson
Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.
Thomas Jefferson
The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.
Thomas Jefferson
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Thomas Jefferson
Health is value greater than studying.
Thomas Jefferson
Of distinction by birth or badge, [Americans] had no more idea than they had of the mode of existence in the moon or planets. They had heard only that there were such, and knew that they must be wrong.
Thomas Jefferson
I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.
Thomas Jefferson
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson
It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that as yet we have found it better to trust the public judgment, rather than the magistrate, with the discrimination between truth and falsehood. And hitherto the public judgment has performed that office with wonderful correctness.
Thomas Jefferson
We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities.
Thomas Jefferson
By... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use if not sought for and cultivated.
Thomas Jefferson
The government you elect is the government you deserve.
Thomas Jefferson
. . . in the full tide of successful experiment.
Thomas Jefferson
Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
Thomas Jefferson
The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.
Thomas Jefferson
Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
Thomas Jefferson
the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to them.
Thomas Jefferson
Men of high learning and abilities are few in every country and by taking in those who are not so, the able part of the body have their hands tied by the unable.
Thomas Jefferson
The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.
Thomas Jefferson
If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
Thomas Jefferson
