Thomas Jefferson

(162 votes)   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.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(160 votes)   Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it as earned.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(158 votes)   Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(156 votes)   Tranquility is the old man's milk.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(152 votes)   The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

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

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(142 votes)   The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(141 votes)   It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(140 votes)   No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(140 votes)   The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(138 votes)   Information is the currency of democracy.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(138 votes)   It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquillity and occupation which give happiness.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(136 votes)   I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

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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