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Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

American statesman

Lived from: 1743 - 1826

Category: Politics | Artists | Philosophers Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 13 april 1743 Died: 4 july 1826

  • The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
  • Tranquility is the old man's milk.

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  • I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
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  • The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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  • 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.
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  • While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?
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