Thomas Jefferson

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"... the giver of life, who gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness."	Success, Life
"...it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."	Miscellaneous
"A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable."	Economics, History
"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks."	Age, Character, Guns
"An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry."	Excellence, Men
"An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens."	Power
"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State."	America, Faith, Freedom
"Blood's thicker than water, and when one's in trouble Best to seek out a relative's open arms. The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind."	Family
"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."	Art, Excellence, Friends
"Delay is preferable to error."	Ability
"Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."	Desires, Time, Wants
"Difference of opinion is helpful in religion."	Help, Religion
"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook."	Knowledge, Wisdom
"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day."	Education
"Every man has two countries: his own and France."	Men
"Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life."	Friends, Life
"Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind."	Happiness
"He is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad."	Evil, Good, Happiness
"Health is worth more than learning."	Health
"History, in general, only informs us what bad government is."	Economics, History
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