Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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101. “The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.”

— Thomas Jefferson

102. “It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.”

— Thomas Jefferson

103. “I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.”

— Thomas Jefferson

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104. “Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.”

— Thomas Jefferson

105. “A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle.”

— Thomas Jefferson

106. “The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.”

— Thomas Jefferson

107. “All men are created equal.”

— Thomas Jefferson

108. “No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.”

— Thomas Jefferson

109. “Hemp is one of the greatest, most important substances of our nation.”

— Thomas Jefferson

110. “Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.”

— Thomas Jefferson

111. “The contest is not between us and them, but between good and evil, and if those who would fight evil adopt the ways of evil, evil wins.”

— Thomas Jefferson

112. “What we learn to do, we learn by doing.”

— Thomas Jefferson

113. “Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.”

— Thomas Jefferson

114. “Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.”

— Thomas Jefferson

115. “The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?”

— Thomas Jefferson

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116. “I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.”

— Thomas Jefferson

117. “He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.”

— Thomas Jefferson

118. “Coffee – the favorite drink of the civilized world.”

— Thomas Jefferson

119. “If ignorance is bliss, why aren’t more people happy?”

— Thomas Jefferson

120. “We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.”

— Thomas Jefferson

121. “The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.”

— Thomas Jefferson

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122. “When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.”

— Thomas Jefferson

123. “Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!”

— Thomas Jefferson

124. “He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”

— Thomas Jefferson

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125. “Freedom, the first-born of science.”

— Thomas Jefferson

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126. “A Man’s management of his own purse speaks volumes about character.”

— Thomas Jefferson

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127. “God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.”

— Thomas Jefferson

128. “Everything yields to diligence.”

— Thomas Jefferson

129. “The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.”

— Thomas Jefferson

130. “It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.”

— Thomas Jefferson

131. “I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.”

— Thomas Jefferson

132. “If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn’t hesitate to choose the latter.”

— Thomas Jefferson

133. “If you have to eat crow, eat it while it’s young and tender.”

— Thomas Jefferson

134. “Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends.”

— Thomas Jefferson

135. “Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.”

— Thomas Jefferson

136. “The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance.”

— Thomas Jefferson

137. “A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles.”

— Thomas Jefferson

138. “I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the Government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.”

— Thomas Jefferson

139. “A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free.”

— Thomas Jefferson

140. “Never use two words when one will do.”

— Thomas Jefferson

141. “There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.”

— Thomas Jefferson

142. “No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him.”

— Thomas Jefferson

143. “Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.”

— Thomas Jefferson

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144. “The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.”

— Thomas Jefferson

145. “The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.”

— Thomas Jefferson

146. “The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exlusions, and incapacitations are removed.”

— Thomas Jefferson

147. “When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.”

— Thomas Jefferson

148. “Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man.”

— Thomas Jefferson

149. “Ignorance is a poor tool in a battle of wits.”

— Thomas Jefferson

150. “I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”

— Thomas Jefferson

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