Thomas Jefferson

(123 votes)   I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(122 votes)   The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(117 votes)   Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(114 votes)   Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(114 votes)   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 blind-folded fear.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(109 votes)   I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(107 votes)   Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?

Thomas Jefferson

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(105 votes)   Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(103 votes)   Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(101 votes)   Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(101 votes)   The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(101 votes)   Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(99 votes)   Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(97 votes)   The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(93 votes)   I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.

Thomas Jefferson

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