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Thomas Jefferson

Read through the most famous quotes from Thomas Jefferson




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


— Thomas Jefferson


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I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.


— Thomas Jefferson


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Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.


— Thomas Jefferson


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Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.


— Thomas Jefferson


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It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.


— Thomas Jefferson


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History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.


— 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


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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.


— Thomas Jefferson


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He who knows best knows how little he knows.


— 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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Removing or preventing corrupting dependence would enable men to be equal in practice. At age 16 Jefferson entered the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg and first met the law professor George Wythe who became his influential mentor. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our constitutions which if not covered will end in their destruction which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens.

Thomas Jefferson (April 13 1743 (April 2 1743 O. Elected Vice President in 1796 when he came in second to John Adams of the Federalists Jefferson opposed Adams and with Madison secretly wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions which attempted to nullify the Alien and Sedition Acts. In 1803 President Jefferson initiated a process of Indian tribal removal and relocation to the Louisiana Territory west of the Mississippi River in order to open lands for eventual American settlers.

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