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The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the state. Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick? Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God himself will not save men against their wills.


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THOMAS JEFFERSON I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of m...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are then mo...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that o...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficult...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolish...
THOMAS JEFFERSON He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time t...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
THOMAS JEFFERSON We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by th...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his god, that he owes...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate ob...
THOMAS JEFFERSON My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office
THOMAS JEFFERSON That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
THOMAS JEFFERSON When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there...
THOMAS JEFFERSON That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
THOMAS JEFFERSON In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fi...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my fam...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON We seldom report of having eaten too little.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Tranquility is the old man's milk.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
THOMAS JEFFERSON In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
THOMAS JEFFERSON