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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.
Thomas Jefferson
Fitness, Health, Learning
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
Men, Liberty, Calm
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Thomas Jefferson
Politics, Eye, Begins
If God is just, I tremble for my country.
Thomas Jefferson
God, Country, Tremble
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, Government, Secret
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
Power, Hope, Wisdom
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.
Thomas Jefferson
Government, Moment, Whether
One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
Thomas Jefferson
Hope, Though, Loves
As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
Thomas Jefferson
Men, Fight, Reason
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson
Mind, Evil, Body
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Thomas Jefferson
Coward, Spirit, Quarrels
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
Thomas Jefferson
Trust, Public, Himself
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas Jefferson
Ambition, Virtue, Fit
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
Thomas Jefferson
God, Gods, Neighbor
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson
Nothing, Educated, Newspapers
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
Thomas Jefferson
Government, Whenever, Trusted
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
Thomas Jefferson
Change, May, Liberty
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
Thomas Jefferson
Life, Time, God
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson
Government, Wish, Alive
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
Thomas Jefferson
Few, Polite, Intimate
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
Happiness, Give, Wealth
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
Thomas Jefferson
Society, Control, Enough
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Thomas Jefferson
History, Government, Him
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Thomas Jefferson
Strong, Country, Stand
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson
Newspaper, Truths, Contain

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Biography

Nationality: American
Type: President
Born: April 13, 1743
Died: July 4, 1826

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