Thomas Jefferson – 3rd President of USA
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Thomas Jefferson (April 13 [O.S. April 2] 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an AmericanFounding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and the third President of the United States (Wikipedia)
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A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.
– Thomas Jefferson
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Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give up the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.
– Thomas Jefferson
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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
~Thomas Jefferson
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
– Thomas Jefferson
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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
– Thomas Jefferson
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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
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. ~Thomas Jefferson,
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It is neither wealth nor splendour, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.
– Thomas Jefferson
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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
– 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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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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
– Thomas Jefferson
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That which we elect to surround ourselves with becomes the museum of our soul and the archive of our experiences.
– Thomas Jefferson
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The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling seeing or hearing.
– Thomas Jefferson
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Timid men prefer the calm of despostism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
– Thomas Jefferson
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When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people there is liberty.
– Thomas Jefferson
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