Thomas Jefferson Quotes about Choices

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I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.

I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.

Thomas Jefferson

Choices, Obedience, Sensible

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

So, ask the travelled inhabitant of any nation, in what country on earth would you rather live? — Certainly, in my own, where are all my friends, my relations, and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. Which would be your second choice? France.

Thomas Jefferson

Country, Choices, Would Be

"The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson".

Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

People, Choices, President

Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.277, Penguin

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

A republic will avoid war unless the avoidance might create conditions that are worse than warfare itself. Sometimes, the dispositions of those who choose to make themselves our enemies leaves us no choice.

Thomas Jefferson

War, Choices, Enemy