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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
12 quotes from Thomas Jefferson — Third US President, principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and founder of the University of Virginia..
“I cannot live without books.”
“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
“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.”
“Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.”
“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
“If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done.”
“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”
“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”
“Good wine is a necessity of life for me.”
“Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.”
“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”
“One man with courage is a majority.”