Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

"Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia."
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"Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia."
Thomas Jefferson
"Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind."
Thomas Jefferson
"It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness."
Thomas Jefferson
"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
"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government."
Thomas Jefferson
"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 every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty."
Thomas Jefferson
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."
Thomas Jefferson
"There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me."
Thomas Jefferson
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
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
"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses."
Thomas Jefferson
"The most successful war seldom pays for its losses."
Thomas Jefferson
"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
"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money."
Thomas Jefferson
"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them."
Thomas Jefferson
"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
"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
"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
"I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gay capital [Paris]."
Thomas Jefferson
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