All Thomas Jefferson Quotes
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson
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When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
Thomas Jefferson
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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.
Thomas Jefferson
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Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
Thomas Jefferson
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson in
Peace
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It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
Thomas Jefferson
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson
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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Thomas Jefferson
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Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
Thomas Jefferson
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It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
Thomas Jefferson
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Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
Thomas Jefferson
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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.
Thomas Jefferson in
Friendship
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It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson
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