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Quotations By Thomas Jefferson

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Boldness

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.

Business

Our business is to have great credit and to use it little.

Censorship

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.

Duty

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

Earth

The earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.

Economy

I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers ... We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the.

Equality

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few to ride them.

Happiness

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.

Liberty

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Pain

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.

Perfection

Every human being... must thus be viewed according to what it is good for, for none of us, no not one, is perfect; and were we to love none who had imperfections, this world would be a desert for our love.

Religion

A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order.

Tyranny

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

War

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

Work

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.