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Thomas Jefferson

third U.S. president 1801--09; b. 1743; d. 1826  ·  11 aphorisms  ·  no comments

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Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (1218 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] Sugar

If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.

[aphorist] Thomas Jefferson, in [category] Law and Politics and [category] Vice and Virtue

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (741 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

[aphorist] Thomas Jefferson, in [category] Law and Politics

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (2652 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

[aphorist] Thomas Jefferson, in [category] Altruism and Cynicism

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (717 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Delay is preferable to error.

[aphorist] Thomas Jefferson, in [category] Success and Failure

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (702 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.

[aphorist] Thomas Jefferson, in [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (725 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

[aphorist] Thomas Jefferson, in [category] Success and Failure and [category] Work and Recreation

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (746 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

[aphorist] Thomas Jefferson, in [category] Law and Politics

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (2724 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (792 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, that gives happiness.

[aphorist] Thomas Jefferson, in [category] Wealth and Poverty and [category] Work and Recreation

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (674 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

[aphorist] Thomas Jefferson, in [category] Law and Politics

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (693 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997  · 

When angry, count to ten before you speak; when very angry, a hundred.

[aphorist] Thomas Jefferson, Writings, in [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

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