All Thomas Jefferson Quotes
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
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I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
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Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
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Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
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To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
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There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
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The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
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The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
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The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
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Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
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Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
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