Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Thomas Jefferson quotes, Thomas Jefferson sayings, and Thomas Jefferson proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.Thomas Jefferson
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Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.Thomas Jefferson
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A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.Thomas Jefferson
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.Thomas Jefferson
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Circumstances sometimes require, that rights the most unquestionable should be advanced with delicacy.Thomas Jefferson
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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.Thomas Jefferson
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Paper is poverty. It is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.Thomas Jefferson
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Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.Thomas Jefferson
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A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.Thomas Jefferson
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We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.Thomas Jefferson
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We never repent of having eaten too little.Thomas Jefferson
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Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.Thomas Jefferson
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The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights.Thomas Jefferson
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Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.Thomas Jefferson
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Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.Thomas Jefferson
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Our ancestors, possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them.Thomas Jefferson
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Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.Thomas Jefferson
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Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.Thomas Jefferson
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Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision.Thomas Jefferson
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In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. Thomas Jefferson
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Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect.Thomas Jefferson
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Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.Thomas Jefferson
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The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.Thomas Jefferson
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Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.Thomas Jefferson
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.Thomas Jefferson
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It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it.Thomas Jefferson
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To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or occupations will fail in attempting.Thomas Jefferson
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...Thomas Jefferson
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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.Thomas Jefferson
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.Thomas Jefferson