Thomas
Jefferson Quotes

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If any of our countrymen wish for a king, give them, Aesop's fable of the frogs who asked a King; if this does not cure them, send them to Europe. They will go back republicans.
- Thomas Jefferson

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A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned-this is the sum of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson

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A strong body makes the mind strong.
- Thomas Jefferson

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Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

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Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson

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Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
- Thomas Jefferson

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I have come to a resolution myself, as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make, be the difference of price what it may.
- Thomas Jefferson

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Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern, which have come under my observation, none appear to me so pure as that of Jesus.
- Thomas Jefferson

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The earth belongs to the living.
- Thomas Jefferson