Thomas Jefferson

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

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(210 votes)   The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

Thomas Jefferson

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(199 votes)   The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(195 votes)   My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(193 votes)   Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude

Thomas Jefferson

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(182 votes)   Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(179 votes)   Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(178 votes)   Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(174 votes)   I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have

Thomas Jefferson

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(171 votes)   Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Thomas Jefferson

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(171 votes)   What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? 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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(168 votes)   In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(166 votes)   I cannot live without books.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(163 votes)   He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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