Thomas Jefferson

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"One man with courage is a majority."	Age, Courage, Men
"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."	Friends, Hope, Knowledge
"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
"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."	Death
"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
"The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible; and the same remedy will make us so."	Age, Death, Duty
"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But 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."	Friends, Government, Men
"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
"I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy."	Change, Failure, Fear
"It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read."	Life, Reading, Religion
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."	Ability, Time
"Difference of opinion is helpful in religion."	Help, Religion
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."	Ability, Government, Hope
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."	Men
"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
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."	Miscellaneous
"Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life."	Friends, Life
"Never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another."	Argument, Conflict, Men
"My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair."	Dreams, Hope, Sleeping
"It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."	Miscellaneous
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