Thomas Jefferson Quotes:
Date of Birth: April 13, 1743- Date of Death: July 4, 1826

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
  
  
• A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
  
  
• All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
  
  
• Delay is preferable to error.
  
  
• For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
  
  
• I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
  
  
• I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
  
  
• I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
  
  
• If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
  
  
• Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
  
  
• Never spend your money before you have earned it.
  
  
• One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
  
  
• Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
  
  
• Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
  
  
• The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
  
  
• The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
  
  
• The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
  
  
• The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
  
  
• The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
  
  
• To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
  
  

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