“I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it”

― Thomas Jefferson

“The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes, should be one of the principal studies and endeavours of our lives.”

― Thomas Jefferson

“A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be.”

― Thomas Jefferson

“All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not.”

― Thomas Jefferson

“I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, that the dart belongs in usufruct to the living.”

― Thomas Jefferson

“Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.”

― Thomas Jefferson

“When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.”

― Thomas Jefferson

“The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government.”

― Thomas Jefferson

“never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased”

― Thomas Jefferson

“If, therefore, from the settlement of the Saxons, to the introduction of Christianity among them, that system of religion could not be a part of the common law, because they were not yet Christians; and if, having their laws from that period to the close of the common law, we are able to find among them no such act of adoption; we may safely affirm (though contradicted by all the judges and writers on earth) that Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law.

― Thomas Jefferson

“The policy of the American government is to leave its citizens free, neither restraining them nor aiding them in their pursuits.”

― Thomas Jefferson

“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”

― Thomas Jefferson

“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.”

― Thomas Jefferson

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

― Thomas Jefferson

“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”

― Thomas Jefferson


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