Tag: Thomas Jefferson
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The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
Thomas Jefferson
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One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
Thomas Jefferson
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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
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That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
Thomas Jefferson
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The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
Thomas Jefferson
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I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Thomas Jefferson
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Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
Thomas Jefferson
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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.
Thomas Jefferson
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No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
Thomas Jefferson
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It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
Thomas Jefferson