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Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto."

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



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us."

Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.




Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude"

I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "All power is inherent in the people."

All power is inherent in the people.




Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."

For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government."

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive."

A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive.




Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone."

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys."

The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "An elective despotism was not the government we fought for."

An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty."

The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive."

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.




Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people."

The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility."

Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair."

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "The sun - my almighty physician."

The sun - my almighty physician.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another."

I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows."

The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "A strong body makes the mind strong."

A strong body makes the mind strong.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union."

The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences."

Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force."

Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms."

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus."

Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us."

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.




Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate our personal moralities."

Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate our personal moralities.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical."

Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies."

Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "In a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all."

In a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "Never put off your massage until tomorrow if you can get it today."

Never put off your massage until tomorrow if you can get it today.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer."

War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief with chains of the Constitution."

All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief with chains of the Constitution.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened."

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise."

Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time."

The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "Our liberty depends on freedom of the press."

Our liberty depends on freedom of the press.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness."

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal."

For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "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."

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.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold."

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory."

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think."

Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world."

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property."

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people."

Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation."

One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism."

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.



Thomas Jefferson Quotes: "The rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people."

The rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.