Thomas Jefferson Quotes on Constitution, Justice and Government

Niraj Patel

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Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743, in Rodwell, Virginia. By obtaining a degree in the law branch, In 1767 he took a Diploma in Law. Being a smart and good lawyer, he was elected as a member of the ‘House of Burgius’. At the same time, America’s independence movement was going on very fast. England’s Parliament had no right to dictate to the American people, such a role he kept in his book ‘Summary View of the Rights of British America,’ of the libertarian American leader who made a significant contribution to America’s freedom movement and prepared the Declaration of Independence, for that Thomas Jefferson is famous. Thomas Jefferson had the honor of being the third President of the United Federation of America. Remembering such a great personality and presenting this collection of Thomas Jefferson Quotes about constitution, justice, government, happiness, truth and life.

Thomas Jefferson Quotes

  • When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.-Thomas Jefferson
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  • How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened!-Thomas Jefferson
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  • We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.-Thomas Jefferson
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  • I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.-Thomas Jefferson
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  • No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will.-Thomas Jefferson
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  • Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread.-Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography
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  • The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.-Thomas Jefferson
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  • When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.-Thomas Jefferson
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  • In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.-Thomas JeffersonWe never repent of having eaten too little.-Thomas Jefferson
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  • Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.-Thomas Jefferson
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  • Delay is preferable to error.-Thomas Jefferson
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  • 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
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  • A little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.-Thomas Jefferson
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  • It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God.-Thomas Jefferson: Notes on the State of Virginia
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  • “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
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  • “I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
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  • “If you want something you’ve never had you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.”
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  • “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
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  • “One man with courage is a majority.”
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  • “Take care of your cents: dollars will take care of themselves.”
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  • “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
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thomas jefferson quotes about life

“The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.

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  • “The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”
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  • “He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.”
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  • “I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.”
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  • “Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.”
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  • “When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.”
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  • “Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.”
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  • “Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
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  • “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
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  • “Be polite to all, but intimate with few.”
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  • “I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.”
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  • “Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.”
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  • “I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
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  • “The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
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  • “Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.”
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  • “He who knows best knows how little he knows.”
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  • “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.”
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  • “There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”
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  • “I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man’s milk and restorative cordial.”
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  • “Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.”
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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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  • “Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.”
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  • “Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.”
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  • “The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.”
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  • “The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.”
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  • “It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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  • “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.”
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  • “Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.”
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  • “A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.”
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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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  • “He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
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  • “My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.”
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  • “There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.”
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thomas jefferson quotes about money

“Never spend your money before you have earned it.”

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  • “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
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  • “I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.”
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  • “Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”
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  • “Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.”
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  • “No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.”
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  • “Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.”
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  • “I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”
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  • “Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.”
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  • “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.”
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  • “The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.”
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  • “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
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  • “Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.”
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  • “Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”
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  • “Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”
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  • “Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.”
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Thomas Jefferson quotes on truth

“An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.”

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  • “Power is not alluring to pure minds.”
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  • “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.”
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  • “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
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  • “The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”
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  • “One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.”
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  • “Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.”
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  • “I cannot live without books.”
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  • “The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.”
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  • “Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”
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  • “It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.”
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