Thomas Jefferson Quotes

• We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

  Thomas Jefferson

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• We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

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• War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

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• Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.

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• Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

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• To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

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• To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

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• Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

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• There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

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• There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

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• There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

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• The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

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• The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

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• The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

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• The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

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• The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

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• The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

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• The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

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• The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

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• The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

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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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