All Thomas Jefferson Quotes
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Thomas Jefferson in
Politics
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There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
Thomas Jefferson
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Thomas Jefferson
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
Thomas Jefferson
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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson in
Wisdom
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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson
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Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
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Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Thomas Jefferson
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It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
Thomas Jefferson
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Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
Thomas Jefferson in
Politics
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The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
Thomas Jefferson
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