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Thomas Jefferson Quotes

«Offices are as acceptable here as elsewhere, and whenever a man has cast a longing eye on them, a rottenness begins in his conduct»
«Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.»
«There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.»
«I have supposed the black man, in his present state, might not be in body and mind equal to the white man; but it would be hazardous to affirm that, equally cultivated for a few generations, he would not become so»
«Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us»
«We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not»
«Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.»
«You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson (Author, President) | About: Business | Keywords: The Business
«A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth»
Author: Thomas Jefferson (Author, President) | Keywords: blessing
«No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.»