Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas JeffersonTag: inspiration motivation
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
Thomas JeffersonTag: inspirational time enterprise hard-work
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none
Thomas JeffersonTag: honesty friendship peace foreign-policy alliances nations trade
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Thomas JeffersonI sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
Thomas JeffersonTag: politics government debt political-science banks deficit-spending loans
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Thomas JeffersonTag: patriotism revolution slogan
Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give
you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.
History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
Thomas JeffersonTag: history government scope-of-government
. . . The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
Thomas JeffersonTag: liberty
The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.
Thomas JeffersonTag: liberty
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