Thomas Jefferson Quotes
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people. Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations. My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. 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. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. Never spend your money before you have earned it. No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place. No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms. No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.
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