Thomas Jefferson Quotes

• It is better to keep a wolf out of the fold than to trust drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.

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• We have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

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• The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

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• Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.

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• The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.

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• The greatest danger to american freedom is a government that ignores the constitution.

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• The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history. Whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.

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• The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

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• Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity.

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• I find the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

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• Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

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• A regard for reputation and the judgment of the world may sometimes be felt where conscience is dormant.

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• It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.

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• A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

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• Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.

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

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• Determine never to be idle… It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

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• Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.

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• Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.

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• If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.

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Thomas Jefferson (237)

Birth:	13th April, 1743
Death:	4th July, 1826
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Administrator, Author, Lawyer, Planter, Politician, President, Principal

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