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Thomas Jefferson quotes

American President April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826

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Thomas Jefferson quote: "If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it,..."
If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off. Thomas Jefferson
If u want something u never had, do something u have never done. Don't go the way life takes u, Take the life the way u go. And remember u are born to live andnot living because you are born. Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson quote: "Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy,..."
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson quote: "Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations;..."
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none. Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson quote: "I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with..."
I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial. Thomas Jefferson
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? Thomas Jefferson
I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no lucture comparable to that of the garden. Sucha a variety of subjeccts, some one always coming to perfection, the failure of one thing repaired by the succes of another, and instead of one harvest a continued one through... Thomas Jefferson
I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give. Thomas Jefferson
Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it may have ordained that the fall of the wicked shall be the rise of the good. To J. Correa de Serra, Monticello, Apr. 19, 1814 Thomas Jefferson
If all be true that I do think, there are five reasons we should drink. Good friends, good times, or being dry, or lest we should be by and by, or any other reason why Thomas Jefferson
We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy. Thomas Jefferson
With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty, which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself everything but health, without which there is no happiness. Thomas Jefferson
Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will giveyou a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour. Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson quote: "Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind."
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. Thomas Jefferson
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. Thomas Jefferson

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