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The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.

The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.

Thomas Jefferson
Wise, Wisdom, Weakness
Thomas Jefferson (1941). “The Wisdom of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Jefferson Bible, "The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth,"”

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

Thomas Jefferson
Religious, Tolerance, Inquiry
Thomas Jefferson (1943). “Thomas Jefferson: selections from his writings edited, with an introduction”

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Thomas Jefferson
Friendship, Names, Volunteer
Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.16, Cambridge University Press

A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive.

Thomas Jefferson
Government, Useless, Honest
Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.297, Algora Publishing

For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

Thomas Jefferson
Gun, Men, Strong Arms

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Thomas Jefferson
War, Men, Spirit
Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786”, p.400, Cosimo, Inc.

The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that there shall always be a twelve-month between the ingross-ing a bill & passing it: that it should then be offered to its passage without changing a word: and that if circum-stances should be thought to require a speedier passage, it should take two thirds of both houses instead of a bare majority.

Thomas Jefferson
Thinking, Law, Two
Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.363, Cambridge University Press

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.

Thomas Jefferson
Liberty, Inalienable Rights, Rich

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.

Thomas Jefferson
Long, Abuse, Virtue
Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

Thomas Jefferson
Fitness, Exercise, Walks
Bernard Mayo, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American”, p.18, University of Virginia Press

I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere; and less perfection in the others, with more health, virtue and freedom, would be my choice.

Thomas Jefferson
Art, Health, Men
Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: 1799-1803”, p.147, Cosimo, Inc.

Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth; and I am sure...we both value too much the freedom of opinion sanctioned by our Constitution, not to cherish its exercise even where in opposition to ourselves.

Thomas Jefferson
Exercise, Differences, Democracy

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

Thomas Jefferson
Country, Love You, Patriotism
Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.423

The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights, and are the only instruments which can be used for their destruction. And certainly they would never consent to be so used were they not deceived. To avoid this they should be instructed to a certain degree.

Thomas Jefferson
Country, Rights, People
Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1601, Library of America

To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and to take from them, as from bees, so much of their earnings, as that unremitting labor shall be necessary to obtain a sufficient surplus to sustain a scanty and miserable life.

Thomas Jefferson
Ignorance, Government, People
Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.369

Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.

Thomas Jefferson
Attention, Should, Objects
Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.13, Modern Library

I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.

Thomas Jefferson
Past, Comfort, Monument
Thomas Jefferson (1900). “The Jefferson Papers [1770-1826”

[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.

Thomas Jefferson
Government, Law, Judging
Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Thomas Jefferson
Freedom, 4th Of July, Yield
Thomas Jefferson (2015). “Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson”, p.5, Lulu.com

I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents.

Thomas Jefferson
Silence, Political, Criticism
Thomas Jefferson, Noble E. Cunningham (2001). “The Inaugural Addresses of President Thomas Jefferson, 1801 And 1805”, p.3, University of Missouri Press

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Thomas Jefferson
Inspirational, Time, Patriotic
Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield

The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.

Thomas Jefferson
Health, Mind, Body
Letter to Thomas M. Randolph Jr, 6 July (1787)

There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.

Thomas Jefferson
Religious, Father, Hypocrite

Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck.

Thomas Jefferson
Sports, Men, Hands
Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.39, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure.

Thomas Jefferson
Mean, Men, Law
Thomas Jefferson “Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson”, Lulu.com