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Thomas Jefferson (13 April 1743 – 4 July 1826) was author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1777), founder of the University of Virginia (1819), the third president of the United States (1801–1809), a political philosopher, editor of Jefferson's Bible (1819), and one of the most influential founders of the United States.
Here are 30 Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes.
1. Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
― Thomas Jefferson
2. Never spend your money before you have it.
― Thomas Jefferson
3. The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper.
― Thomas Jefferson
4. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
― Thomas Jefferson
5. I may grow rich by art I am compelled to follow, I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment, but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.
― Thomas Jefferson
6. Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
― Thomas Jefferson
7. I cannot live without books.
― Thomas Jefferson
8. Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
― Thomas Jefferson
9. Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
― Thomas Jefferson
10. If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.
― Thomas Jefferson
11. Delay is preferable to error.
― Thomas Jefferson
12. No instance exists of a person's writing two languages perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.
― Thomas Jefferson
13. 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.
― Thomas Jefferson
14. We shall divert through our own Country a branch of commerce which the European States have thought worthy of the most important struggles and sacrifices, and in the event of peace on terms which have been contemplated by some powers we shall form to the American union a barrier against the dangerous extension of the British Province of Canada and add to the Empire of liberty an extensive and fertile Country thereby converting dangerous Enemies into valuable friends.
― Thomas Jefferson
15. Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
― Thomas Jefferson
16. The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
― Thomas Jefferson
17. History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
― Thomas Jefferson
18. It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.
― Thomas Jefferson
19. Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
― Thomas Jefferson
20. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
― Thomas Jefferson
21. There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
― Thomas Jefferson
22. Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.
― Thomas Jefferson
23. On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
― Thomas Jefferson
24. I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
― Thomas Jefferson
25. But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
― Thomas Jefferson
26. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
― Thomas Jefferson
27. Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.
― Thomas Jefferson
28. I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
― Thomas Jefferson
29. I have sworn upon the altar of god, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
― Thomas Jefferson
30. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
― Thomas Jefferson
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