All Thomas Jefferson Quotes
I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
Thomas Jefferson
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson
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As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
Thomas Jefferson
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Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson
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It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
Thomas Jefferson
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I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
Thomas Jefferson
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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Thomas Jefferson
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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Thomas Jefferson
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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.
Thomas Jefferson
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The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
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Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Thomas Jefferson
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