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Religion, morality, and knowledge are necessary for good government... Therefore schools and the means of educating the people should always be encouraged.

Religion, morality, and knowledge are necessary for good government... Therefore schools and the means of educating the people should always be encouraged.

Thomas Jefferson
School, Mean, Government

Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master.

Thomas Jefferson
Ambition, Animal, Littles

Big banks are more dangerous than standing armies, and the practice of borrowing and spending money to be paid back by the next generation is stealing from their future.

Thomas Jefferson
Army, Practice, Next

It is better to have no ideas than false ones.

Thomas Jefferson
Ideas, Aries, No Idea
Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”

The wisdom of our ages and the blood of our heroes has been devoted to the attainment of trial by jury. It should be the creed of our political faith.

Thomas Jefferson
Hero, Blood, Political

Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.

Thomas Jefferson
Government, Citizens, Taxation
Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.570

Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.

Thomas Jefferson
Luxury, Comfort, Add
Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

The declaration of rights [Bill of Rights] is, like all other human blessings, alloyed with some inconveniences and not accomplishing fully its object. But the good in this instance vastly outweighs the evil.

Thomas Jefferson
Blessing, Rights, Evil

Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson
Way, Tyranny, Subservience

We figure great careers aren't made. They're experienced.

Thomas Jefferson
Careers, Figures, Made

An acre of the best ground for hemp, is to be selected and sewn in hemp and be kept for a permanent hemp patch.

Thomas Jefferson
Acres, Hemp, Patches

The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.

Thomas Jefferson
Children, Passion, Wrath
Thomas Jefferson (1832). “Notes on the State of Virginia”, p.170

When, in short, we shall have unlearned everything which has been taught since his [Jesus'] day, and got back to the pure and simple doctrines he inculcated, we shall then be truly and worthily his disciples: and my opinion is that if nothing had ever been added to what flowed purely from his lips, the whole world would at this day have been Christian.

Thomas Jefferson
Christian, Jesus, Simple
Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.35, Modern Library

I feel much alarmed at the prospect of seeing General Jackson President. He is the most unfit man I know for such a place.

Thomas Jefferson
Men, President, Feels

The price of barbecue is eternal vigilance.

Thomas Jefferson
Barbecue, Vigilance, Eternal

One generation cannot bind another.

Thomas Jefferson
Generations

I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.

Thomas Jefferson
Christian, Doctrine, Preference
Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.36, Modern Library

The smell rewards the care.

Thomas Jefferson
Smell, Care, Rewards

The precepts of philosophy and of the Hebrew code, laid hold of actions only. (Jesus) pushed his scrutinies into the heart of man, erected his tribunal in the regions of his thoughts, and purified the waters at the fountain head.

Thomas Jefferson
Jesus, Philosophy, Heart
Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”, p.517

The President is bound to stop at the limits prescribed by our Constitution and law to the authorities in his hands, [and this] would apply in an occasion of peace as well as war.

Thomas Jefferson
War, Hands, Law

Although we are free by the law, we are not so in practice.

Thomas Jefferson
Law, Practice
Letter to Mordecai M. Noah, www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org. May 28, 1818.

I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe.... They are nations of eternal war.

Thomas Jefferson
War, Europe, United States
Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States”, p.375

If you have any duty which must be done, and it seems disagreeable, do it promptly and have it over.

Thomas Jefferson
Done, Duty, Seems

The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many.

Thomas Jefferson
War, Great Men, Preference
Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.213, Algora Publishing

Question boldly even the existence of God.

Thomas Jefferson
Existence, Existence Of God