Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 (April 2, 1743 O.S.) C July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the United States (1801C1809). He was a spokesman for democracy and the rights of man with worldwide influence. At the beginning of the American Revolution, he served in the Continental Congress, representing Virginia and then served as a wartime Governor of Virginia (1779C1781). Just after the war ended, from mid-1784 Jefferson served as a diplomat, stationed in Paris. In May 1785, he became the United States Minister to France.
2. I tremble for my country when I reflect that
God is just; that his justice cannot sleep
forever.
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3. Our greatest happiness does not depend on
the condition of life in which chance has
placed us, but is always the result of a good
conscience, good health, occupation, and
freedom in all just pursuits.
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Educate and inform the whole mass of the
people... They are the only sure reliance for
the preservation of our liberty.
5. Honesty is the first chapter in the book of
wisdom.
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6. Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man with the
wrong mental attitude.
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7. 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.
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8. When angry count to ten before you speak. If
very angry, count to one hundred.
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9. I like the dreams of the future better than the
history of the past.
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10. Nothing gives one person so much advantage
over another as to remain always cool and
unruffled under all circumstances.
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11. Peace and friendship with all mankind is our
wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted
to pursue it.
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12. The man who reads nothing at all is better
educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
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13. The spirit of resistance to government is so
valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to
be always kept alive.
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14. Whenever the people are well-informed, they
can be trusted with their own government.
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15. Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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16. He who knows best knows how little he knows.
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17. History, in general, only informs us of what
bad government is.
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18. I believe that every human mind feels
pleasure in doing good to another.
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19. Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you
know there is no hook beneath it.
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20. Walking is the best possible exercise.
Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
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21. It is always better to have no ideas than false
ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what
is wrong.
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22. Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the
world were watching.
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23. Conquest is not in our principles. It is
inconsistent with our government.
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24. Don't talk about what you have done or what
you are going to do.
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25. Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and
unalienable rights of man.
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26. The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a
large military force.
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27. It is more dangerous that even a guilty person
should be punished without the forms of law
than that he should escape.
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28. I find that he is happiest of whom the world
says least, good or bad.
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29. The natural cause of the human mind is
certainly from credulity to skepticism.
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30. 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.
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31. In defense of our persons and properties
under actual violation, we took up arms.
When that violence shall be removed, when
hostilities shall cease on the part of the
aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part
also.
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