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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 like to see the people awake and alert.
Thomas Jefferson
We think, in America, that it is necessary to introduce the people into every department of government, as far as they are capable of exercising it, and that this is the only way to ensure a long continued and honest administration of its powers.
Thomas Jefferson
Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.
Thomas Jefferson
His [Calvin's] religion was demonism. If ever man worshiped a false God, he did. The being described in his five points is ... a demon of malignant spirit. It would be more pardonable to believe in no God at all, than to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin
Thomas Jefferson
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
Thomas Jefferson
Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature.
Thomas Jefferson
Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.
Thomas Jefferson
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Thomas Jefferson
The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.
Thomas Jefferson
...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.
Thomas Jefferson
I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.
Thomas Jefferson
The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.
Thomas Jefferson
The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.
Thomas Jefferson
We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
Thomas Jefferson
A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia]
Thomas Jefferson
My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and purehappiness.
Thomas Jefferson
Bind them down by the chains of the Constitution where they can do no mischief.
Thomas Jefferson
Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.
Thomas Jefferson
I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
Thomas Jefferson
Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
Thomas Jefferson
