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Music...This is the favorite passion of my soul.
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 press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.
Thomas Jefferson
No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination.
Thomas Jefferson
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
Thomas Jefferson
If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
Thomas Jefferson
Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. ... With hearts fortified ... we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that... we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverence, employ for the preservation of our liberties being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves.
Thomas Jefferson
I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.
Thomas Jefferson
The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.
Thomas Jefferson
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson
The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.
Thomas Jefferson
If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors without suffering the State to be troubled with it.
Thomas Jefferson
Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country
Thomas Jefferson
life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the temper, chears our spirits, and promotes health.
Thomas Jefferson
Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.
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
You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts.
Thomas Jefferson
The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.
Thomas Jefferson
We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.
Thomas Jefferson
Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.
Thomas Jefferson
Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.
Thomas Jefferson
I have done for my country and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country.
Thomas Jefferson
