Thomas Jefferson — Philosophical Quotes

562 quotes · Politician, Founding Father

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Thomas Jefferson Quotes

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

Philosophical

“No person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six.”

Years Political Three

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

Philosophical

“In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be - burdens to those appointed to them which it would be wrong to decline, though foreseen to bring them intense labor and great private loss.”

Government Loss Times Like These

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Philosophical

“They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its friendships and fortunes.”

Country Government Succeed

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Philosophical

“I leave the world and its affairs to the young and energetic, and resign myself to their care, of whom I have endeavored to take care when young.”

World Care Inexperience

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Philosophical

“It is to them I look, to the rising generation, and not to the one now in power, for these great reformations i.e., emancipation of slaves and settlement of the Virginia constitution on a firmer and more permanent basis.”

Looks Rising Virginia

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Philosophical

“Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.”

Mind May Ignorance

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Philosophical

“Men of high learning and abilities are few in every country; and by taking in those who are not so, the able part of the body have their hands tied by the unable.”

Men Country Hands

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Philosophical

“Men possessing minds of the first order and who have had opportunities of being known and of acquiring the general confidence do not abound in any country beyond the wants of the country.”

Men Country Opportunity

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Philosophical

“This is perhaps the most important statement on religion ever made. It clarified the intent of the founders of the constitution irrespective of the attempts of modern day religious revisionists.”

Important Religious Constitution

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Philosophical

“There are two amendments only which I am anxious for: 1. A bill of rights, which it is so much the interest of all to have that I conceive it must be yielded...2. The restoring of the principle of necessary rotation, particularly to the Senate and Presidency, but most of all to the last.”

Two Rights Principles

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Philosophical

“We think, in America, that it is necessary to introduce the people into every department of government, as far as they are capable of exercising it, and that this is the only way to ensure a long continued and honest administration of its powers.”

Thinking Government Exercise

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Philosophical

“Our bills shall not be killed.”

Bills

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