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“When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
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— Thomas Jefferson
“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“Taste cannot be controlled by law.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“Be polite to all, but intimate with few.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“One man with courage is a majority.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“If God is just, I tremble for my country.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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