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Thomas Jefferson Quotes

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

Friendship Quotes

In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.


I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.


Victory and defeat are each of the same price.


Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.


The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.


Never spend your money before you have earned it.


I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.


Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.


We rarely repent of having eaten too little.


But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.

Friendship Quotes

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.


Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.


Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.


Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.