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Thomas Jefferson Quotes


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Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
[Free]

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as of duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails it will be from this weakness.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
[Censorship]

No instance exists of a person's writing two languages perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.

No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
[Presidency]

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey.

No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.
[One Day]

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.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
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Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

Of all calamities this is the greatest.
[Intemperance]

Of all the faculties of the human mind that of memory is the first which suffers decay from age.
[Age]
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One man with courage is a majority.


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