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Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue.
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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If the happiness of the mass of mankind can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase.
Thomas Jefferson
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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It is not the policy of the government in America to give aid to works of any kind. They let things take their natural course without help or impediment, which is generally the best policy.
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In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.
Thomas Jefferson
The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].
Thomas Jefferson
While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.
Thomas Jefferson
What we learn to do, we learn by doing.
Thomas Jefferson
Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
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I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. I have been the instrument of doing the following things but they would have been done by others some of them, perhaps, a little better.
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[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom whichwould be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money, and if wisdom were hereditary.
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Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.
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I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse.
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I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.
Thomas Jefferson
The federal government is our servant, not our master.
Thomas Jefferson
Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.
Thomas Jefferson
Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.
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.
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I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
Thomas Jefferson
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
Thomas Jefferson
