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Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

Country United States
Born Saturday, 13 April 1743
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Quotes 165

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Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 (April 2, 1743 O.S.) – July 4, 1826) was the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence (1776) and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom (1777), the third President of the United States (1801–1809) and founder of the University of Virginia (1819). He was an influential Founding Father and an exponent of Jeffersonian democracy.

Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

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If God is just, I tremble for my country. Uncategorized
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. Uncategorized
When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred. Uncategorized
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. Uncategorized
As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also. Uncategorized
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. Uncategorized
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. Thomas Jefferson Uncategorized
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. Uncategorized
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. t Uncategorized
One man with courage is a majority. Uncategorized
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. Uncategorized
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. Uncategorized
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. Uncategorized
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. Uncategorized
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto. Uncategorized
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. Uncategorized
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Uncategorized
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. Uncategorized
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. Uncategorized
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. Uncategorized

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