Thomas Jefferson Short Quotes

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But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

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The good old Dominion, the blessed mother of us all.

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Abstracted from home, I know no happiness in this world.

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[Washington] errs as other men do, but errs with integrity

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It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

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A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean

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It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it.

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Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

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A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

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If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.

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There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

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By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.

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In war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy all of them

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A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

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One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

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The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

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The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.

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The ocean...like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.

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One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life.

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Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law.

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When public opinion changes, it is with the rapidity of thought.

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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

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Nothing betrays imbecility so much as the being insensible of it.

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The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.

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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

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I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away.

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

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I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.

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War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

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I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.

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