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3rd U.S. President

Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States, a distinguished politician, philosopher, architect, and scientist. He was born on April 13, 1743, and died on July 4, 1826. Jefferson advocated for democracy and freedom in politics and was one of the main authors of the Declaration of Independence. His political ideas had a profound impact on the founding and development of the United States.

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Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes

“The merchant has no country .”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Every man has two countries: his own and France.”

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“If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption.”

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Book:Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness

Source: Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness

“Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.”

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Book:Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States

Source: Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States

“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them. ... Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself. ... The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. ... I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. ... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”

“Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at the ways of Providence. So shall the life into which you have entered be the portal to one of eternal and ineffable bliss.”

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Book:Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States

Source: Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States

“The constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country.”

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Book:The Wisdom of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Jefferson Bible,

Source: The Wisdom of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Jefferson Bible,

“The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights.”

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Book:Jefferson: Writings

Source: Jefferson: Writings

“In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal.”

Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

“Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.”

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Book:Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph

Source: Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph

“The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of the first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country. The latter, never useful.”

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Book:Papers of Thomas Jefferson

Source: Papers of Thomas Jefferson

“Where the principle of difference [between political parties] is as substantial and as strongly pronounced as between the republicans and the monocrats of our country, I hold it as honorable to take a firm and decided part and as immoral to pursue a middle line, as between the parties of honest men and rogues, into which every country is divided.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.”

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Book:The Real Thomas Jefferson

Source: The Real Thomas Jefferson

“I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. I have been the instrument of doing the following things; but they would have been done by others; some of them, perhaps, a little better.”

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Book:Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson