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Never spend your money before you have it.
— Thomas Jefferson
The only thing a man can take beyond this lifetime is his ethics.
— 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
Delay is preferable to error.
— Thomas Jefferson
A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.
— Thomas Jefferson
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
— Thomas Jefferson
Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society.
— Thomas Jefferson
Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will giveyou a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour. — Thomas Jefferson
When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.
— Thomas Jefferson
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
Do not write me studied letters but ramble as you please.
— Thomas Jefferson
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
— Thomas Jefferson
Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself.
— Thomas Jefferson
we declared that an attack on any one colony should be considered as an attack on the whole. This
— Thomas Jefferson
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
— Thomas Jefferson
The price of barbecue is eternal vigilance.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves.
— Thomas Jefferson
The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained.
— Thomas 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
Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.
— Thomas Jefferson
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
— Thomas Jefferson
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
The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.
— Thomas Jefferson
No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature.
— Thomas Jefferson
New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.
— Thomas Jefferson
Never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a wordParaphrased — Thomas Jefferson
The rational and peacable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.
— Thomas Jefferson
It would not be for the public good to have [a majority in Congress of one party] greater [than] two to one.
— Thomas Jefferson
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
— Thomas Jefferson
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
— Thomas Jefferson
If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'
— Robin Quivers
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.
— Thomas Jefferson
Taste cannot be controlled by law.
— Thomas Jefferson
It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.
— Thomas Jefferson
Probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.
— John F. Kennedy
Knowledge is power ... knowled ge is safety ... knowle dge is happiness.
— Thomas Jefferson
My general plan would be to make the States one as to everything connected with foreign nations and several as to everything purely domestic.
— Thomas Jefferson
Every man has two countries: his own and France.
— Thomas Jefferson
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
— Thomas Jefferson
The people will not understand the importance of the Second Amendment until it is too late.
— Thomas Jefferson
War ... is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.
— 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
Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.
— Thomas Jefferson
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
— Thomas Jefferson
May it be to the world ... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.
— Thomas Jefferson
Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.
— Thomas Jefferson
The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.
— 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.
— 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
Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.
— Thomas Jefferson
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
— Thomas Jefferson
The only security of all is in a free press.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.
— Thomas Jefferson
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
The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.
— Thomas Jefferson
I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
— Thomas Jefferson
The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace.
— 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
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
Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Some other natural rights ... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights.
— 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
I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.
— 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
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[A]lthough a republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.
— Thomas Jefferson
I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart.
— Thomas Jefferson
It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterward.
— Thomas Jefferson
Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
— Thomas Jefferson
The variety of opinions leads to questions. Questions lead to truth.
— Thomas Jefferson
We might have been a free and great people together.
— 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
Although we are free by the law, we are not so in practice.
— Thomas Jefferson
I'm not Thomas Jefferson. He was a pussy!
— Charlie Sheen
There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.
— Thomas Jefferson
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
— Thomas Jefferson
We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with self - government.
— Thomas Jefferson
Of all machines, the human heart is the most complicated and inexplicable.
— Thomas Jefferson
No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time.
— Thomas Jefferson
An hereditary aristocracy ... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.
— Thomas Jefferson
Don't spend your money till you have it.
— Thomas Jefferson
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
— 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
In the full tide of successful experiment.
— Thomas Jefferson