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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
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.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
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.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
One man with courage is a majority.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Written by Thomas Jefferson

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