All Thomas Jefferson Quotes
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
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History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
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The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
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It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
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I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.
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Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal 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.
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Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
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The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.
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Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
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