Thomas Jefferson Quotes

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April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826
Third President of the United States

• Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. 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 blindfolded fear.
• 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.
• Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
• I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
• 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.
• Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
• He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
• Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
• Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
• I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
• All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
• Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
• I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
• 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.
• I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
• I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
• Delay is preferable to error
• I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
• Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
• I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
• Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
• I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
• I never considered a difference of opinion in politics , in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

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