1. Thomas Jefferson - “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”

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2. Thomas Jefferson - “To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical.”

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3. Thomas Jefferson - “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”

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4. Thomas Jefferson - “War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.”

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5. Thomas Jefferson - “When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny.”

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6. Thomas Jefferson - “The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.”

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7. Thomas Jefferson - “The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”

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8. Thomas Jefferson - “I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.”

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9. Thomas Jefferson - “A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.”

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10. Thomas Jefferson - “Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.”

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11. Thomas Jefferson - “Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.”

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

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13. Thomas Jefferson - “Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.”

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14. Thomas Jefferson - “I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements and under all circumstances, to be open and generous, promoting in the long run even the interests of both.”

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15. Thomas Jefferson - “That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.”

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16. Thomas Jefferson - “Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.”

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17. Thomas Jefferson - “Our liberty depends on freedom of the press, And that cannot be limited without being lost.”

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18. Thomas Jefferson - “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.”

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19. Thomas Jefferson - “Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.”

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20. Thomas Jefferson - “Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in the newspaper.”

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21. Thomas Jefferson - “My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.”

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22. Thomas Jefferson - “When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, count a hundred.”

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23. Thomas Jefferson - “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”

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24. Thomas Jefferson - “I cannot live without books.”

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25. Thomas Jefferson - “The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”

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