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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

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

Thomas Jefferson

Motivational You Know Action Will

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

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 Government

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

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

Wisdom Truth Honesty Book

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

Thomas Jefferson

Style Brainy Stand Rock

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Thomas Jefferson

Education People Government Own

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 Against

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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 Always

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

Thomas Jefferson

Motto Commerce Our Alliance Should

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

Thomas Jefferson

Dreams Future History Past

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

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

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 Never Done

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

Thomas Jefferson

Cool Nothing Always Person

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

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Thomas Jefferson

You World Watching Act Thing

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

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

Thomas Jefferson

Education Clouds Darkness Mind

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

Thomas Jefferson

Power Road Corruption Country

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 Our Only

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Thomas Jefferson

Best Who He Little How

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

Thomas Jefferson

Best Yourself Fitness Walk

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 Experience Power

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