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Thomas Jefferson
third U.S. president 1801--09; b. 1743; d. 1826
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Aphorisms Attributed to This Aphorist
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# · Not So Good (25 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Sugar
If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.
# · Not So Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
# · Not So Good (5 ratings) · submitted 1997
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
# · Bad (4 ratings) · submitted 1997
Delay is preferable to error.
# · Not So Good (6 ratings) · submitted 1997
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Thomas Jefferson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
# · Not So Good (7 ratings) · submitted 1997
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
# · Not So Good (6 ratings) · submitted 1997
I live for books.
Thomas Jefferson, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
# · Not So Good (9 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, that gives happiness.
Thomas Jefferson, in Wealth and Poverty and Work and Recreation
# · Not So Good (6 ratings) · submitted 1997
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
# · Bad (5 ratings) · submitted 1997 ·
When angry, count to ten before you speak; when very angry, a hundred.
Thomas Jefferson, Writings, in Wisdom and Ignorance
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