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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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In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also. Uncategorized
Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do. Uncategorized
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other. Uncategorized
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education. Uncategorized
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes. Uncategorized
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. Uncategorized
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world. Uncategorized
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. Uncategorized
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. Uncategorized
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. Uncategorized
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. Uncategorized
I cannot live without books. Uncategorized
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. Uncategorized
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. Uncategorized
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it. Uncategorized
Delay is preferable to error. Uncategorized
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too. Uncategorized
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. Uncategorized
We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. Uncategorized
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. Uncategorized

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