American - President | April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
Thomas Jefferson
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There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
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Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
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There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
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If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
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Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
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The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
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The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.
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