Thomas Jefferson

(61 votes)   A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

Thomas Jefferson

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(258 votes)   A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(52 votes)   A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Thomas Jefferson

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(50 votes)   A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(50 votes)   A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

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1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(339 votes)   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.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(127 votes)   Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are then most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise. Protection from casual embarrassments, however, may sometimes be seasonably interposed.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(48 votes)   Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(368 votes)   An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

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1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(218 votes)   Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(49 votes)   Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(91 votes)   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.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(50 votes)   But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(150 votes)   But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.

Thomas Jefferson

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(50 votes)   But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.

Thomas Jefferson

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