American - President | April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
Thomas Jefferson
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
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History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
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It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
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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.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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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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I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
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