Thomas Jefferson

(72 votes)   I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(68 votes)   Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Thomas Jefferson

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(66 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
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(65 votes)   Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(64 votes)   Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

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(64 votes)   Religions are all alike -- founded on fables and mythologies

Thomas Jefferson

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(63 votes)   We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals, our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.

Thomas Henry Jefferson

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(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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(61 votes)   I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(59 votes)   Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(59 votes)   It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(59 votes)   We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(58 votes)   Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(56 votes)   No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it...To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Thomas Jefferson

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(53 votes)   The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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