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"40 Thomas Jefferson Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 13 April 1743. Died: 4 July 1826 | Philosopher | Statesman | President |

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Know Define Ask Act
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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Always Chance Condition Conscience
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Cause Considered Difference Friend
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Better Dreams Future History
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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.

Arrangement Benevolent Friendship Greater
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Better Educated Man Newspapers
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Authority Bold Every Fearing
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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Current Like Matters Principle
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History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

Bad Bad Government General Government
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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.

Among Certain Created Creator
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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Always Handle Hold Smooth
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No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
Ever Free Government No-One
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No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

Arms Debarred Freeman Shall
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For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

Armed Best Free Mean
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Believes Error He Ignorance
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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Book Chapter First Honesty
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Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Decide Government Hesitate Latter
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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.

Approve Because Boldness Even
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Alone Error Government Itself
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The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

Belongs Dead Earth Living
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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Being Body Happiness Mind
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Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Begins Cast Conduct Eye
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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Blood From Time To Time Liberty Must
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I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

Am America Become Book
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War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

Entirely Inefficient Instead Instrument
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Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
About Done Going Talk
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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.

Achieving Attitude Earth Goal
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One man with courage is a majority.

Courage Majority Man One-Man
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My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

Always Been Cheap Despair
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Friendship I Wish Mankind May
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Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

Consequence Consolidation Corruption Country
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Body Dawn Day Enlighten
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Gain Government Ground Liberty
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Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Case Citizen Every Free
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Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
Despotism Force Immediate Parent
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I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Against Altar Eternal Every
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In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

Age Been Country Every
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Advantage Always Another Circumstances
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I cannot live without books.

Books Cannot Live Without
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
Able Every Every Man Free
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