Thomas Jefferson
American statesman
Lived from: 1743 - 1826
Category: Politics | Artists | Philosophers Country: United States
Born: 13 april 1743 Died: 4 july 1826
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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
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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.
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I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office
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I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.
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There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
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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…
― Thomas Jefferson
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