

"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."
The Jefferson Cyclopedia (1900) pg. 6
Jefferson wrote this to Peter Carr. He wrote this as a rule for action.
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"A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity."
The Wisdom of Thomas Jefferson (2003) pg. 67
The quote continues, "The idle are the only miserable," and was written to his daughter, Martha Jefferson.
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"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."
As quoted in Memoirs, correspondence, and private papers of Thomas Jefferson: late president of the United States (1829), pg. 286
Written in a letter to Peter Carr, the quote continues, "...he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him."
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"I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.' To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, not longer susceptible of any definition."
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"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
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