Thomas Jefferson

(47 votes)   In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(47 votes)   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.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(47 votes)   The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as they are injurious to others.

Thomas Jefferson

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(46 votes)   It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately. - Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

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(46 votes)   Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(46 votes)   Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(46 votes)   The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(46 votes)   When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(45 votes)   Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

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(45 votes)   It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

Thomas Jefferson

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(45 votes)   Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(44 votes)   To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(44 votes)   Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(43 votes)   It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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