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Never spend your money before you have it.
— Thomas Jefferson
Sometimes how we dialogue in today's culture is just as important as why we dialogue.
— Jefferson Bethke
Thankfulness is the quickest path to joy.
— Jefferson Bethke
The reality is that it's harder for religious people to come to Christ than anyone else because they think they are already good to go.
— Jefferson Bethke
But Jesus isn't rocking a cardigan, and he doesn't talk softly through his nose. He's a roaring lion.
— Jefferson Bethke
He does most in God's great world who does his best in his own little world.
— Thomas Jefferson
Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society.
— Thomas Jefferson
One of the best barometers of a true Christian's heart is to see what kind of people he attracts and what kind of people he repels.
— Jefferson Bethke
I don't know what we did without Velcro in the American theater. It's a miracle substance! People had long intermissions, probably.
— Jefferson Mays
For Heaven's sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum
— Thomas Jefferson
A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
— Thomas Jefferson
The price of barbecue is eternal vigilance.
— Thomas Jefferson
The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained.
— Thomas Jefferson
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.
— Thomas Jefferson
There's a growing body of evidence that meditation actually reduces cortisol and promotes better health.
— Charles G. Jefferson
The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.
— Thomas Jefferson
Garfield's assassination attempt made "the whole nation care".
— Jefferson Davis
The information of the people at large can alone make them the safe as they are the sole depositary of our political and religious freedom.
— Thomas Jefferson
Lord, it's one kind favor I'll ask of you. See that my grave is kept clean.
— Blind Lemon Jefferson
I have, for instance, silently corrected Jefferson's frequent use of "it's" for "its" and "recieve" for "receive,
— Jon Meacham
Having joy in God not because of circumstances but despite circumstances is what makes God look great - and it's a true joy that comes from within.
— Jefferson Bethke
Some other natural rights ... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights.
— Thomas Jefferson
Excessive taxation ... will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.
— Thomas Jefferson
No society is so precious as that of one's own family.
— Thomas Jefferson
Didn't Gandalf say "With great power comes great responsibility"? (If it wasn't Gandalf, maybe it was Thomas Jefferson. Or Spider-Man's uncle.)
— Tom Angleberger
Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.
— Thomas Jefferson
One of Boomer's strong points is that he has a great background in just about everything.
— Herbert Jefferson Jr.
I have lived temperately ... I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.
— Thomas Jefferson
Tranquility is the old man's milk.
— Thomas Jefferson
Depression is so treacherous - it can be so alluring as well as punishing. After all, it's yours and yours alone - no one else can interfere with it.
— Margo Jefferson
For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.
— Thomas Jefferson
By the late twentieth century, Jefferson's windfall would be feeding much of the world.
— Edward E. Baptist
Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.
— Thomas Jefferson
A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry
— Thomas Jefferson
I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.
— Thomas Jefferson
Grace just flows. It's a one-way type of love that runs the conduit directly from God's heart to ours.
— Jefferson Bethke
While learning the language in France a young man's morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of the universe.
— Thomas Jefferson
Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.
— Hunter S. Thompson
If you serve humanity, you serve humanity's God.
— Thomas Jefferson
One of my favorite things about following Jesus is I get to drop the act, admit I'm not good enough, walk in freedom-and that's good news.
— Jefferson Bethke
A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief.
— Thomas Jefferson
The minute you think you have gotten on God's good side by your own behavior, you are naturally prone to demonize those who haven't.
— Jefferson Bethke
If you have to eat crow, eat it while it's young and tender.
— Thomas Jefferson
Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the South's two halves together.
— Jefferson Davis
Jefferson subsequently came to believe that Henry's speech attacking the Stamp Act had been "the dawn of the Revolution."36
— John Ferling
It's only when we understand that in Jesus we are cleansed, washed, and renewed that we see our sin fall by the wayside.
— Jefferson Bethke
Heaven isn't a place for people who are scared of hell; it's for people who love Jesus.
— Jefferson Bethke
Americans could achieve Jefferson's democratic freedoms through Hamilton's economic development strategies and trade policies.
— Patrick Mendis
A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character
— Thomas Jefferson
I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
— Thomas Jefferson
No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and Thomas Paine
— Christopher Hitchens
I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.
— Thomas Jefferson
It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterward.
— Thomas Jefferson
Although we are free by the law, we are not so in practice.
— Thomas Jefferson
Wisdom cannot be stolen - it can only be shared.
— Jefferson Smith
Witty, brooding, contemplative, explosive: take your pick.
— Margo Jefferson
Never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word
Paraphrased — Thomas Jefferson
Paraphrased — Thomas Jefferson
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
— Thomas Jefferson
We love God by loving his people.
— Jefferson Bethke
How soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the earth were it not for misgovernment and a diversion of his energies to selfish interests.
— Thomas Jefferson
We might have been a free and great people together.
— Thomas Jefferson
It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.
— Thomas Jefferson
There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.
— Thomas Jefferson
The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible.
— Thomas Jefferson
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
— Thomas Jefferson
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
— Thomas Jefferson
The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.
— Thomas Jefferson
Persecution, like fire, burns up the weak elements (wood and hay) but actually purifies the strong ones (silver and gold). It
— Jefferson Bethke
No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time.
— Thomas Jefferson
Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect.
— Thomas Jefferson
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
— Thomas Jefferson
In the full tide of successful experiment.
— Thomas Jefferson
Our business is to have great credit and to use it little.
— Thomas Jefferson
While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.
— Thomas Jefferson
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
— Thomas Jefferson
Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?
— Edmund Morgan
It is in the love of one's family only that heartfelt happiness is known.
— Thomas Jefferson
Merchants have no country.
— Thomas Jefferson
Question boldly even the existence of God.
— Thomas Jefferson
The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.
— Thomas Jefferson
By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.
— Thomas Jefferson
The laws that forbid the carrying of arms ... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.
— Thomas Jefferson
My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.
— Thomas Jefferson
Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.
— Thomas Jefferson
I'd prefer to have dangerous freedom,
than have peaceful slavery — Thomas Jefferson
than have peaceful slavery — Thomas Jefferson
How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.
— Jefferson Davis
We're only human James, bound by flesh and blood to do the wrong thing." ~Lena Jefferson from The Other Sister
— Cheri Paris Edwards
[A]lthough a republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.
— Thomas Jefferson
The authors of all our misfortune.
— Jefferson Davis