Quotes By Thomas Jefferson

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

Thomas Jefferson | American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826

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"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes" [Letter to von Humboldt, 1813].

Thomas Jefferson | American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826

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(Academics) commit their pupils to the theatre of the world, with just taste enough of learning to be alienated from industrial pursuits, and not enough to do service in the ranks of science

Thomas Jefferson | American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826

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

Thomas Jefferson | American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826

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[He wove those three threads into a talk ranging from annually spending a week at Halloween as a child collecting candy to giving candy to hundreds of children at Halloween as an adult; from childhood assistance he received from adults, particularly after his parents divorced, to saying] I challenge you to be a caring adult in someone's life ... Great times call forth great leaders.

Thomas Jefferson | American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826

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A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences

Thomas Jefferson | American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826

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A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson | American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826

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

Thomas Jefferson | American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826

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

Thomas Jefferson | American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826

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