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Thomas Jefferson

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“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“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
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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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“One man with courage is a majority.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?”— Thomas Jefferson
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“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“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.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.”— Thomas Jefferson
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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
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“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. 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 blindfolded fear.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“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.”— Thomas Jefferson