QUOTES by Thomas Jefferson
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“I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.”
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“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“Experience hath shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”
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“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”
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“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”
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“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.”
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“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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“When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson