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No society is so precious as that of one’s own family.
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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Never use two words when one will do.
Thomas Jefferson
I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.
Thomas Jefferson
[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.
Thomas Jefferson
I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid and I find myself much the happier.
Thomas Jefferson
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
I leave the world and its affairs to the young and energetic, and resign myself to their care, of whom I have endeavored to take care when young.
Thomas Jefferson
Don't spend your money till you have it.
Thomas Jefferson
I have wished to see chemistry applied to domestic objects, to malting, for instance, brewing, making cider, to fermentation and distillation generally, to the making of bread, butter, cheese, soap, to the incubation of eggs, &c.
Thomas Jefferson
Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.
Thomas Jefferson
I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.
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
Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.
Thomas Jefferson
So, ask the travelled inhabitant of any nation, in what country on earth would you rather live? — Certainly, in my own, where are all my friends, my relations, and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. Which would be your second choice? France.
Thomas Jefferson
The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man
Thomas Jefferson
Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
Thomas Jefferson
All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution.
Thomas Jefferson
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power.
Thomas Jefferson
That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.
Thomas Jefferson
A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.
Thomas Jefferson
Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.
Thomas Jefferson
