Delay is preferable to error.

—Thomas Jefferson

About Thomas Jefferson

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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...

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Life is one long process of getting tired.

—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

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

—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

We never repent having eaten too little.

—Thomas Jefferson

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We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

—Theodore Roosevelt

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Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world.

Life is one long process of getting tired.

—Thomas Jefferson

We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.

—Theodore Roosevelt

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

—Samuel Johnson

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