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Thomas Jefferson (April 13 [O.S. April 2], 1743 – July 4, 1826) was a Founding Father and the third president of the United States, serving from 1801 to 1809. A prolific writer and philosopher, Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. His political philosophy formed the basis for Jeffersonian democracy, which dominated early American politics alongside federalism. Jefferson remains celebrated as an icon of American political values, but is also controversial for being a lifelong slave owner.

Quotes from Thomas Jefferson

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

—Thomas Jefferson

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

—Thomas Jefferson

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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

—Thomas Jefferson

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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

—Thomas Jefferson

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We never repent having eaten too little.

—Thomas Jefferson

Have you become a farmer? Is it not pleasanter than to be shut up within four walls and delving eternally with the pen?

—Thomas Jefferson

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

—Thomas Jefferson

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

—Thomas Jefferson

Life is one long process of getting tired.

—Thomas Jefferson

Delay is preferable to error.

—Thomas Jefferson

Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

—Thomas Jefferson

I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

—Thomas Jefferson

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

—Thomas Jefferson

It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

—Thomas Jefferson

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

—Thomas Jefferson

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