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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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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. Uncategorized
Never spend your money before you have earned it. Uncategorized
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. Uncategorized
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. Uncategorized
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. Uncategorized
Be polite to all, but intimate with few. Uncategorized
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. Uncategorized
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. Uncategorized
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? Uncategorized
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. Uncategorized
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. Uncategorized
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. Uncategorized
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. Uncategorized
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. Uncategorized
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. Uncategorized
He who knows best knows how little he knows. Uncategorized
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed. Uncategorized
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. Uncategorized
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. Uncategorized
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. Uncategorized

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