| 124 Famous Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
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“Every generation needs a new revolution.”
Generations Quotes |
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“A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences”
Government Quotes |
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“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”
Government Quotes |
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“Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.”
Government Quotes |
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“Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.”
Health Quotes |
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“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
Honesty Quotes |
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“Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong”
Honor Quotes |
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“The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance”
Ignorance Quotes |
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“Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried”
Inventions Quotes |
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“The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.”
Juries and judges Quotes |
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“Conscience is the chamber of justice.”
Justice Quotes |
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“In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.”
Liberty Quotes |
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“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”
Liberty Quotes |
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“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
Liberty Quotes |
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“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”
Luck Quotes |
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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 inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”
Mankind Quotes |
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“An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do”
Morality Quotes |
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“A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society”
Nations Quotes |
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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. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable”
Newspapers Quotes |
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“Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.”
Obedience Quotes |
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“When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the rest have a natural right to compel them to obedience”
Obedience Quotes |
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“Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery.”
Oppression Quotes |
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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.”
Power Quotes |
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“Power is not alluring to pure minds”
Power Quotes |
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“The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being”
Press Quotes |
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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