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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
3rd president of US [more author details]

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Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.: Thomas Jefferson
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.: Thomas Jefferson
Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.: Thomas Jefferson
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.: Thomas Jefferson
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.: Thomas Jefferson
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.: Thomas Jefferson
I cannot live without books.: Thomas Jefferson
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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I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.: Thomas Jefferson
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.: Thomas Jefferson
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.: Thomas Jefferson
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.: Thomas Jefferson
Never spend your money before you have it.: Thomas Jefferson
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Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.: Thomas Jefferson
No instance exists of a person's writing two languages perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.: Thomas Jefferson
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.: Thomas Jefferson
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.: Thomas Jefferson
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Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for 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.: Thomas Jefferson
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.: Thomas Jefferson
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.: Thomas Jefferson
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.: Thomas Jefferson
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.: Thomas Jefferson
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.: Thomas Jefferson
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.: Thomas Jefferson
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.: Thomas Jefferson, letter to Count Diodati, 1807
No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will.: Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Washington, September 9, 1792
Health is worth more than learning.: Thomas Jefferson, letter to his cousin John Garland Jefferson, June 11, 1790
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If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.: Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Lewis, Jr., May 9, 1798
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.: Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Melish, January 13, 1813
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Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.: Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
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