Thomas Jefferson Quotes

• On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.

  Thomas Jefferson

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• When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

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• Every Generation Needs a New Revolution.

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

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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 inherent and inalienable rights;that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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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.

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• Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

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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.

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• Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.

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• It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

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• The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

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• If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.

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• I cannot live without books.

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• Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

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

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

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• Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

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• We never repent of having eaten too little.

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• We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

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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.

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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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