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I leave to others the sublime...

I leave to others the sublime delights of riding in the storm, better pleased with sound sleep & a warmer berth below it encircled, with the society of neighbors, friends & fellow laborers of the earth rather than with spies & sycophants ... I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

The days of life are consumed...

The days of life are consumed, one by one, without an object beyond the present moment; ever flying from the ennui of that, yet carrying it with us; eternally in pursuit of happiness, which keeps eternally before us. If death or bankruptcy happen to trip us out of the circle, it is matter for the buzz of the evening, and is completely forgotten by the next morning.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

What an augmentation of the f...

What an augmentation of the field for jobbing, speculating, plundering, office-building and office-hunting would be produced by an assumption of all the state powers into the hands of the general government.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

The darker the berry, the swe...

The darker the berry, the sweeter the juice.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

I discharge every person unde...

I discharge every person under punishment or prosecution under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider, that law to be a nullity as absolute and palpable as if Congress had ordered us to fall down and worship a golden image.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

If the Wise be the happy man....

If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

The moral sense, or conscienc...

The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

The foundation on which (our ...

The foundation on which (our government is) built is the natural equality of man, the denial of every pre-eminence but that annexed to legal office, and particularly the denial of a pre-eminence by birth.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

The eyes of our citizens are ...

The eyes of our citizens are not sufficiently open to the true cause of our distress. They ascribe them to everything but their true cause, the banking system

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

We need a revolution every 20...

We need a revolution every 20 years just to keep government honest.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

Hindsight is an exact science...

Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

The physician is happy in the...

The physician is happy in the attachment of the families in which he practices. All think he has saved one of them, and he finds himself everywhere a welcome guest, a home in every house.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

I have nothing but contempt f...

I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

To compel a man to furnish co...

To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical...A wise and frugal government...shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned...Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare but only those specifically enumerated...Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands?

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

Though [the people] may acqui...

Though [the people] may acquiesce, they cannot approve what they do not understand.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

No man will labor for himself...

No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

Some men look at Constitution...

Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in Government is worth a century of book-reading; and this they would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

Congress has not unlimited po...

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

Experience has taught me that...

Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

A right to property is founde...

A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right to what we acquire by those means without violating the similar rights of other sensible beings.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

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