Showing posts with label Thomas Jefferson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thomas Jefferson. Show all posts

Health is the requisite after morality. ----Thomas Jefferson

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The art of life is the art of avoiding pain. Thomas Jefferson

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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.---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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Q#1609-Thomas Jefferson

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, a hundred.

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Q#1622-Thomas Jefferson

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

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Q#1623-Thomas Jefferson

Delay is preferable to error.

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Q#1624-Thomas Jefferson

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

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Q#1620-Thomas Jefferson

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

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Q#1621-Thomas Jefferson

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

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Q#1616-Thomas Jefferson

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

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Q#1617-Thomas Jefferson

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

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Q#1618-Thomas Jefferson

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

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Q#1619-Thomas Jefferson

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

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Q#1663-Thomas Jefferson

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

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Q#1664-Thomas Jefferson

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

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Q#1660-Thomas Jefferson

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.

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Q#1661-Thomas Jefferson

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

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Q#1662-Thomas Jefferson

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.

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Q#1658-Thomas Jefferson

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

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