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Thomas Jefferson quotes

American President April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826

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Thomas Jefferson quote: "There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this..."
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson quote: "Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted..."
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. Thomas Jefferson
So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants. Thomas Jefferson
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
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
Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident. Thomas Jefferson
If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as a sorry state as the souls who live under tyranny. Thomas Jefferson
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! Thomas Jefferson
We believe no more in Bonaparte's fighting merely for the liberties of the seas than in Great Britain's fighting for the liberties of mankind. The object is the same, to draw to themselves the power, the wealth and the resources of other nations. Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson quote: "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and..."
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. Thomas Jefferson
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed. Thomas Jefferson
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Thomas Jefferson
And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson quote: "Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful...."
Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time. Thomas Jefferson
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. Thomas Jefferson

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