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All quotes by: Thomas Jefferson

Life

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
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Life

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
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Life

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Thomas Jefferson
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Age

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
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Alone

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas Jefferson
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Motivational

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
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Motivational

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas Jefferson
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Alone

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
Thomas Jefferson
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Alone

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Thomas Jefferson
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Friendship

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson
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Friendship

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.
Thomas Jefferson
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Friendship

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
Thomas Jefferson
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Friendship

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Thomas Jefferson
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Inspirational

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
Thomas Jefferson
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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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