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American - President April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826 Read full biography See also: Quotes about Thomas Jefferson

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Thomas Jefferson

Life Good Happiness Freedom

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.

Thomas Jefferson

Life Happiness Freedom Men

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Thomas Jefferson

Friendship Politics Religion Friend

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

Style Brainy Stand Rock Swim

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Thomas Jefferson

Motivational You Know Action

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Thomas Jefferson

Life Good Happiness Care

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

Wisdom Truth Honesty Book Chapter

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Thomas Jefferson

Life Friendship Sunshine Thanks

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson

Future Dreams History Past

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

Thomas Jefferson

Me Gardening Culture Garden

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Thomas Jefferson
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Thomas Jefferson

Motivational Time May Done

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

Thomas Jefferson

People Rest Government Just

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

Thomas Jefferson

Tree Time Patriotism Blood Liberty

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

Thomas Jefferson

Equality Limits Law Action

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.

Thomas Jefferson

Attitude Man Nothing Help

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

Thomas Jefferson

Motto Commerce Alliance Our Should

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

People Liberty Only Mass

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Thomas Jefferson

Cool Person Nothing Always

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Thomas Jefferson

Best Who Little He How

I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

Thomas Jefferson

Believe Dangerous More Standing

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

Thomas Jefferson

Men Wise Improvement Government

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

Thomas Jefferson

Education Clouds Darkness Mind

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

Best Time Power Experience

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

Thomas Jefferson

Money Morality Commerce Principle

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

Thomas Jefferson

Sea Freedom Never Wave

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

Thomas Jefferson

Best Yourself Walk Fitness

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