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I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.

Thomas Jefferson

Debt

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be. - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Thomas Jefferson

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred. - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Thomas Jefferson

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him. - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

Thomas Jefferson

Money, not morality, is the principle of commerce and commercial nations - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Money, not morality, is the principle of commerce and commercial nations

Thomas Jefferson

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none. - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none.

Thomas Jefferson

The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion of principle but that of gain - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion of principle but that of gain

Thomas Jefferson

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither

Thomas Jefferson

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Thomas Jefferson

Deception Pleasure

We are endeavoring, too, to reduce the government to the practice of a rigorous economy, to avoid burdening the people, and arming the magistrate with patronage of money, which might be used to corrupt and undermine the principles of our government - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

We are endeavoring, too, to reduce the government to the practice of a rigorous economy, to avoid burdening the people, and arming the magistrate with patronage of money, which might be used to corrupt and undermine the principles of our government

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 Quotes

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind

Thomas Jefferson

Every generation needs a new revolution. - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Every generation needs a new revolution.

Thomas Jefferson

For Heaven's sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

For Heaven's sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum

Thomas Jefferson

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny

Thomas Jefferson

Governments (derive) their just powers from the consent of the governed - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Governments (derive) their just powers from the consent of the governed

Thomas Jefferson

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government... - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...

Thomas Jefferson

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

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Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

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No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

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One single object...[will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation. - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

One single object...[will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

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It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it

Thomas Jefferson

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

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If Americans ever allow banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

If Americans ever allow banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless

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The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government

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Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

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Exercise Quote of the Day Reading

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression. - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

Thomas Jefferson

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.

Thomas Jefferson

My creed had been formed on unsheathing the sword at Lexington - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

My creed had been formed on unsheathing the sword at Lexington

Thomas Jefferson

I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.' To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, not longer susceptible of any definition. - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.' To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, not longer susceptible of any definition.

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The construction applied ... to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power ... ought not to be construed as themselves to give unlimited powers, nor a part to be so taken as to destroy the whole residue of that instrument. - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

The construction applied ... to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power ... ought not to be construed as themselves to give unlimited powers, nor a part to be so taken as to destroy the whole residue of that instrument.

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Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. education and free discussion are the antidotes of both. - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.

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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

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Expression Freedom

The flames kindled on the 4 of July 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

The flames kindled on the 4 of July 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them

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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 Quotes

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.

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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions. - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.

Thomas Jefferson

Congress Politics

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to = remain silent. - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to = remain silent.

Thomas Jefferson

I rejoice that in this blessed country of free inquiry and belief, which has surrendered its creed and conscience to neither kings nor priests, the genuine doctrine of only one God is reviving, and I trust that there is not a young man now living in - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

I rejoice that in this blessed country of free inquiry and belief, which has surrendered its creed and conscience to neither kings nor priests, the genuine doctrine of only one God is reviving, and I trust that there is not a young man now living in

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When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

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But friendship is precious, not only in shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

But friendship is precious, not only in shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine

Thomas Jefferson

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

Thomas Jefferson

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 Quotes

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.

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Citizens Citizenship

The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being

Thomas Jefferson

Man

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 Quotes

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

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

Thomas Jefferson

Hard Work inspirational Sports Success

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour

Thomas Jefferson

Trade

One insult pocketed soon produces another - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

One insult pocketed soon produces another

Thomas Jefferson

The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do. - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

Thomas Jefferson

No defender of slavery, I concede that it has its benevolent aspects in lifting the Negro from savagery and helping prepare him for that eventual freedom which is surely written in the Book of Fate - Thomas Jefferson Quotes

No defender of slavery, I concede that it has its benevolent aspects in lifting the Negro from savagery and helping prepare him for that eventual freedom which is surely written in the Book of Fate

Thomas Jefferson

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