All Thomas Jefferson Quotes
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Thomas Jefferson
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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.
Thomas Jefferson
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
Thomas Jefferson
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson
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Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
Thomas Jefferson
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None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.
Thomas Jefferson
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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.
Thomas Jefferson
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Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
Thomas Jefferson
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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Thomas Jefferson
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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.
Thomas Jefferson
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The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
Thomas Jefferson
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A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Thomas Jefferson
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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Thomas Jefferson
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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