All Thomas Jefferson Quotes
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
Thomas Jefferson
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When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
Thomas Jefferson
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Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
Thomas Jefferson
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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.
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No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
Thomas Jefferson
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How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
Thomas Jefferson
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War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
Thomas Jefferson
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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.
Thomas Jefferson
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Thomas Jefferson
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My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Thomas Jefferson
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Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
Thomas Jefferson
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The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson
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So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
Thomas Jefferson
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One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
Thomas Jefferson
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