Thomas Jefferson

Quote link. Other quotes about: truth: "Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never men: "An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power man honest: "An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nature game mind walk: "A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks."
Quote link.: "Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america power god people man respect government religion law lies: "Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friendship friend life sun friends: "But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine."
Quote link.: "Delay is preferable to error."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never: "Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time never person: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: religion: "Difference of opinion is helpful in religion."
Quote link.: "Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "Every man has two countries his own and France."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life sun: "Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life."
Quote link.: "Health is worth more than learning."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad world good: "He is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first book wisdom: "Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never evil pain: "How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books live book: "I cannot live without books."
Quote link. Other quotes about: sin single: "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: luck find work hard: "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
Quote link. Other quotes about: house: "If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power happiness never: "I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god man mind: "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing service: "I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty."
Quote link. Other quotes about: physical world little good: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: history dreams past future: "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."
Quote link. Other quotes about: luck find work believe hard: "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: democracy: "Information is the currency of democracy."
Quote link.: "In matters of style, swim with the current in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth: "I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope fear: "I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god: "...it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth government need alone: "It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live religion words: "It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness: "It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america nothing: "It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth something nothing life belief: "Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never man war: "Never enter into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never man fear: "Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment."
Quote link. Other quotes about: money: "Never spend your money before you have it."
Quote link.: "Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
Quote link. Other quotes about: government: "No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend nothing man person friends: "No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it...To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people good: "No more good must be attempted than the people can bear."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mental wrong earth right nothing men man: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: person: "Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man courage: "One man with courage is a majority."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lost freedom: "Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friendship friend man wise mankind friends wish: "Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friendship friend honest friends: "Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason god fear: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad god world nothing life religion honest society alone: "Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one."
Quote link. Other quotes about: prejudices reason god fear mind fact: "Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. 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 blindfolded fear."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men look: "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human men wisdom look: "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence ... too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people government: "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth: "The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right first people government: "The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers wthout government, I should not hesita"
Quote link. Other quotes about: beauty need: "The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man life mankind: "The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life."
Quote link. Other quotes about: class day: "The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god time life: "The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people man law rule country: "The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible and the same remedy will make us so."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power god government: "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing man: "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never words: "The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men: "There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents."
Quote link. Other quotes about: government wish: "The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason right people government: "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america: "The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain. . ."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first people government: "The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason human truth freedom mind: "This institution will be based upon the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: walk: "Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far."
Quote link. Other quotes about: strength respect fear: "We confide in our strength, without boasting of it we respect that of others, without fearing it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness right truth men life: "We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness right truth men life government: "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. That to secure these rights, Governments ar"
Quote link. Other quotes about: government: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "When a man has cast his longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct."
Quote link.: "When angry, count ten before you speak if very angry, an hundred."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong right people government: "Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world never look: "Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you and act accordingly."
Quote link.: "When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."

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