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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.
By Thomas Jefferson
It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back
By Thomas Jefferson
It is unfortunate for our peace, that unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal
By Thomas Jefferson
It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.
By Thomas Jefferson
It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately
By Thomas Jefferson
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
By Thomas Jefferson
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
By Thomas Jefferson
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
By Thomas Jefferson
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.
By Thomas Jefferson
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
By Thomas Jefferson
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquillity and occupation which give happiness.
By Thomas Jefferson
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
By Thomas Jefferson
It behoves 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.
By Thomas Jefferson
Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.
By Thomas Jefferson
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
By Thomas Jefferson
In matters of style, swim with the current in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
By Thomas Jefferson
In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.
By Thomas Jefferson
If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
By Thomas Jefferson
If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.
By Thomas Jefferson
If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
By Thomas Jefferson
If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.
By Thomas Jefferson
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
By Thomas Jefferson