With your talents and industry, with science, and that stedfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thingbut health, without which there is no happiness. An attention to health then should take place of every other object. The time necessary to secure this by active exercises, should be devoted to it in preference to every other pursuit.


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THOMAS JEFFERSON
Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nati...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, ...
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
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON