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Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
By Thomas Jefferson
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
By Thomas Jefferson
We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
By Thomas Jefferson
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.
By Thomas Jefferson
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
By Thomas Jefferson
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
By Thomas Jefferson
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
By Thomas Jefferson
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
By Thomas Jefferson
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
By Thomas Jefferson
Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.
By Thomas Jefferson
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
By Thomas Jefferson
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
By Thomas Jefferson
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
By Thomas Jefferson
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
By Thomas Jefferson
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
By Thomas Jefferson
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
By Thomas Jefferson
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
By Thomas Jefferson
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
By Thomas Jefferson
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
By Thomas Jefferson