QUOTES by Thomas Jefferson
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“Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.”
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“It is the duty of every American citizen to take part in a vigorous debate on the issues of the day.”
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“The object of walking is to relax the mind. You should therefore not permit yourself even to think while you walk. But divert your attention by the objects surrounding you.”
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“A machine for making revolutions is doing precisely the wrong thing at just the right time.”
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“Of all machines, the human heart is the most complicated and inexplicable.”
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“Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived, have forced me to take a part in resisting them, and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions.”
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“That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.”
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“Self-love is no part of morality. Indeed it is exactly its counterpart. It is the sole antagonist of virtue leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.”
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“Everything is useful which contributes to fix in the principles and practices of virtue.”
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“Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.”
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“Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.”
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“There is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.”
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“Was the government to prescribe us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.”
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“If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.”
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“Walking is the very best exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.”
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“I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent.”
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“A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.”
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“May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.”
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“Advertisements… contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.”
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“No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden…But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.”
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“If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.”
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“It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.”
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“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.”
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“When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
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“Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it, is what I have steadfastly believed.”
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“But this momentous question. Like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror.”
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“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.”
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“That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.”
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“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.”
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“Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the general progress of the human mind.”
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“With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty, which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself everything but health, without which there is no happiness.”
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“The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.”
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