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- If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to James Lewis, Jr., May 9, 1798
- I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- I cannot live without books.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- Health is worth more than learning.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to his cousin John Garland Jefferson, June 11, 1790
- No instance exists of a person's writing two languages perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- ...probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Describing a dinner for Nobel Prize winners, 1962
- Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to George Washington, September 9, 1792
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