I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder
I work the more I have of it.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.
--Thomas Jefferson
The studious perusal of the Sacred Volume will make better citizens,
better fathers, and better husbands.
--Thomas Jefferson
The Bible is the cornerstone of Liberty.
--Unknown (very likely not Thomas Jefferson)
Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom.
Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.
--Thomas Jefferson
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is
pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
--Thomas Jefferson
Never trust a government that doesnt trust its own citizens with guns
--Thomas Jefferson
I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
--Thomas Jefferson
The arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume we will,
in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance,
employ for the preservation of our liberties being with one mind
resolved to die free rather than live slaves.
--Thomas Jefferson, 1775
The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
--President Thomas Jefferson
I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age,
the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
--Thomas Jefferson
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is
pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
--Thomas Jefferson
The superiority of chocolate, both for health and nourishment,
will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in
America which it has in Spain.
--Thomas Jefferson
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