Quotes by Jefferson, Thomas

"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."

Jefferson, Thomas on procrastination
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"Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs."

Jefferson, Thomas on public office   

"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 blind-folded fear."

Jefferson, Thomas on questions
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"I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."

Jefferson, Thomas on rebellion
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"We rarely repent of having eaten too little."

Jefferson, Thomas on regret
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"The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind."

Jefferson, Thomas on republican   

"Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."

Jefferson, Thomas on resignation   

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

Jefferson, Thomas on evolution
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"Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us."

Jefferson, Thomas on ridicule   

"The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it."

Jefferson, Thomas on slavery   

"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state."

Jefferson, Thomas on soldier
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"Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour."

Jefferson, Thomas on speech   

"We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it."

Jefferson, Thomas on strength
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"I cannot live without books."

Jefferson, Thomas on books - reading
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"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."

Jefferson, Thomas on books - reading   

"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."

Jefferson, Thomas on brevity
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"The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain."

Jefferson, Thomas on business   

"I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise."

Jefferson, Thomas on censure   

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"It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance."

Jefferson, Thomas on character   

"Taste cannot be controlled by law."

Jefferson, Thomas on taste   

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"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money."

Jefferson, Thomas on thoughts and thinking   

"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."

Jefferson, Thomas on trade   

"Tranquility is the old man's milk."

Jefferson, Thomas on tranquility   

"Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy."

Jefferson, Thomas on travel
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"For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead..."

Jefferson, Thomas on truth
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"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."

Jefferson, Thomas on truth   

"The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies."

Jefferson, Thomas on truth
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"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."

Jefferson, Thomas on tyranny
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"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

Jefferson, Thomas on tyranny
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"Victory and defeat are each of the same price."

Jefferson, Thomas on victory
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"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

Jefferson, Thomas on vigilance
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"How much pain worries have cost us that have never happened?"

Jefferson, Thomas on worry
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"A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation."

Jefferson, Thomas on citizenship   

"If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest."

Jefferson, Thomas on conquest
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"Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."

Jefferson, Thomas on control
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"A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit."

Jefferson, Thomas on war   

"With your talents and industry, with science, and that stedfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thingbut health, without which there is no happiness. An attention to health then should take place of every other object. The time necessary to secure this by active exercises, should be devoted to it in preference to every other pursuit. "

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"The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have past at home in the bosom of my family. public emploiment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from ones family and affairs. "

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"Perfect happiness I believe was never intended by the deity to be the lot of any one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it, is what I as stedfastly believe. "

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"Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded, that the evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come, I have used my best endeavors to keep our country uncommitted in the troubles which afflict Europe, and which assail us on every side. "

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