Thomas Jefferson

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"Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye."	Ability, Faith, Honesty
"It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness."	Happiness, Joy
"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook."	Knowledge, Wisdom
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."	Miscellaneous
"...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
"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear."	Age, Fear
"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none."	Friends, Honesty, Peace
"There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents."	Ability, Men, Talent
"Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights."	Government, Honesty, Lies
"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."	Ability, Sin, Talent
"I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others."	Ability, Happiness, Joy
"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
"The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers wthout government, I should not hesita"	Decision-Making, Government, Men
"Information is the currency of democracy."	Democracy, Government
"This institution will be based upon the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it."	Ability, Fear, Freedom
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments ar"	Ability, Age, Equality
"When a man has cast his longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct."	Men
"How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened."	Evil, Good
"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."	Knowledge, Monarchy, Wisdom
"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."	Dreams, History, Sleeping
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