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Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if you do not remember, turn to a dictionary. It produces great praise to a lady to spell well. to his

Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if you do not remember, turn to a dictionary. It produces great praise to a lady to spell well. to his daughter Martha

Thomas Jefferson
Daughter, Writing, Caring
Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.45, Cambridge University Press

Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them.

Thomas Jefferson
Country, Men, Choices
Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 1: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.107

I pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people.

Thomas Jefferson
Government, People, Mind

Those who would trade safety for freedom deserve neither.

Thomas Jefferson
Safety, Trade, Deserve

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Thomas Jefferson
Education, Patriotic, Free Opinion
First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801

By... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use if not sought for and cultivated.

Thomas Jefferson
Class, Genius, Use
Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.390

The reward of esteem, respect and gratitude [is] due to those who devote their time and efforts to render the youths of every successive age fit governors for the next.

Thomas Jefferson
Gratitude, Effort, Age
Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.522

What but education has advanced us beyond the condition of our indigenous neighbors? And what chains them to their present state of barbarism and wretchedness but a bigoted veneration for the supposed superlative wisdom of their fathers and the preposterous idea that they are to look backward for better things and not forward, longing, as it should seem, to return to the days of eating acorns and roots rather than indulge in the degeneracies of civilization?

Thomas Jefferson
Father, Civilization, Ideas
Thomas Jefferson (1976). “Thomas Jefferson, revolutionary philosopher: a selection of writings”, Barron's Educational Series

[If] the nature of ... government [were] a subordination of the civil to the ecclesiastical power, I [would] consider it as desperate for long years to come. Their steady habits [will] exclude the advances of information, and they [will] seem exactly where they [have always been]. And there [the] clergy will always keep them if they can. [They] will follow the bark of liberty only by the help of a tow-rope.

Thomas Jefferson
Government, Years, Long

In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

Thomas Jefferson
Gambling, Boredom, Employment

It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has been held in vassalage by kings, priests, and nobles; and it is honorable for us to have produced the first legislature who had the courage to declare that the reason of man may be trusted with the formation of his own opinions.

Thomas Jefferson
Kings, Men, Independence
Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness.

Thomas Jefferson
Safety, Knowledge Is Power

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.

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

We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body

Thomas Jefferson
Dog, War, Example
Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.91, Algora Publishing

Music...This is the favorite passion of my soul.

Thomas Jefferson
Passion, Soul, My Soul
Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.280, Penguin

I consider the doctrines of Jesus as delivered by himself to contain the outlines of the sublimest system of morality that has ever been taught but I hold in the most profound detestation and execration the corruptions of it which have been invented.

Thomas Jefferson
Jesus, Profound, Doctrine

From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which I find healthful to my body, mind, and affairs.

Thomas Jefferson
Agriculture, Mind, Noon
Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.233, Rowman & Littlefield

Travelling is good for your health and necessary for your amusement.

Thomas Jefferson
Amusement
Thomas Jefferson, William Keeney Bixby, Worthington Chauncey Ford (1916). “Thomas Jefferson Correspondence: Printed from the Originals in the Collections of William K. Bixby”

It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.

Thomas Jefferson
War, Benefits, Horror
Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution”, p.14, Algora Publishing

One had rather have no opinion than a false one.

Thomas Jefferson
Opinion

Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will.

Thomas Jefferson
Form, Please, Nations
Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence”, p.500

Who better to so softly bind the wound of one, than she who has suffered the wound herself.

Thomas Jefferson
Wounds

Government governed least is government governed best.

Thomas Jefferson
Government

In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.... Reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged.... Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them.

Thomas Jefferson
Art, Citizens, Inquiry

Hemp is one of the greatest, most important substances of our nation

Thomas Jefferson
Important, Substance, Hemp