Thomas Jefferson Quotes And Sayings

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“A strong body makes the mind strong.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“An insult unpunished is the parent of many others.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“A man’s moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“The power of making war often prevents it.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use and without which it would be useless.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Nothing but a necessity invincible by any other means can justify … a prostitution of laws, which constitute the pillars of our whole system of jurisprudence.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Truth, between candid minds, can never do harm.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“A tour of duty, in whatever line he can be most useful to his country, is due from every individual.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Nothing but good can result from an exchange of information and opinions between those whose circumstances and morals admit no doubt of the integrity of their views.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolved, and the people recovering their true sight, restoring their government to its true principles”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Opinion, and the just maintenance of it, shall never be a crime in my view.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself to resist invasions of it in the case of others, or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“When an instrument admits two constructions, the one safe, the other dangerous, the one precise, the other indefinite, I prefer that which is safe and precise.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“I deem no government safe which is under the vassalage of any self-constituted authorities, or any other authority than that of the nation, or its regular functionaries.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“It is not he who prints, but he who pays for printing a slander, who is its real author.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“I will not say that public life is the line for making a fortune. But it furnishes a decent and honorable support, and places one’s children on good grounds for public favor.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the world.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“I never saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many, on their getting warm, becoming rude, and shooting one another.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially on politics.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“It is wonderful to me that old men should not be sensible that their minds keep pace with their bodies in the progress of decay.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Nothing betrays imbecility so much as the being insensible of it.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“There is a fullness of time when men should go, and not occupy too long the ground to which others have a right to advance.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow-citizens.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Truth advances, and error recedes step by step only.”
– Thomas Jefferson

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