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My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Thomas Jefferson in AGE AND AGING
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
Thomas Jefferson in ALLIANCES
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson in BANKERS AND BANKING
I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
Thomas Jefferson in BANKERS AND BANKING
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas Jefferson in BOOKS AND READING
I cannot live without books.
Thomas Jefferson in BOOKS AND READING
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Thomas Jefferson in BREVITY
The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.
Thomas Jefferson in BUSINESS
I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
Thomas Jefferson in CENSURE
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
Thomas Jefferson in CHARACTER
I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
Thomas Jefferson in CHRISTIAN
A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
Thomas Jefferson in CITIZENSHIP
If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
Thomas Jefferson in CONQUEST
Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Thomas Jefferson in CONTROL
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances
Thomas Jefferson in COOL
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Thomas Jefferson in COWARD AND COWARDICE
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
Thomas Jefferson in DEBT
The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
Thomas Jefferson in DOUBT
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson in DREAMS
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
Thomas Jefferson in ECONOMY AND ECONOMICS
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson in EDUCATION
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
Thomas Jefferson in EDUCATION
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…
Thomas Jefferson in EQUALITY
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson in EQUALITY
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
Thomas Jefferson in EXERCISE
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
Thomas Jefferson in FAMILY
This is the fourth?
Thomas Jefferson in FAMOUS LAST WORDS
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have
Thomas Jefferson in FAMOUS
In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by
Thomas Jefferson in FANATICS AND FANATICISM
Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners
Thomas Jefferson in FARMING AND FARMERS
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