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Never put off your massage until tomorrow if you can get it today.
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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More quotes by Thomas Jefferson
A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government.
Thomas Jefferson
Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war.
Thomas Jefferson
I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
Thomas Jefferson
Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight.
Thomas Jefferson
While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent and open outrages of law and patriotism as dishonorable as they are injurious
Thomas Jefferson
[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it's power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of theirvirtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!
Thomas Jefferson
There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
Thomas Jefferson
If your letters are as long as the bible, they will appear short to me. Only let them be brim full of affection.
Thomas Jefferson
We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .
Thomas Jefferson
No person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six.
Thomas Jefferson
Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author
Thomas Jefferson
We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
Thomas Jefferson
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
Thomas Jefferson
Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas Jefferson
Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.
Thomas Jefferson
Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master.
Thomas Jefferson
I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse.
Thomas Jefferson
Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.
Thomas Jefferson
The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.
Thomas Jefferson
Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.
Thomas Jefferson
