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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 (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the state to effect, and on a general plan (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)