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Truth between candid minds can never do harm.
Wine brightens the life and thinking of anyone
What i value more than all things, good humor.
Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.
It is better to have no ideas than false ones.
Victory and defeat are each of the same price.
The hole and the patch should be commensurate.
Freedom [is] the first-born daughter of science
The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.
A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry
The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union.
Every man has two countries: his own and France.
Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.
Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.
Music...This is the favorite passion of my soul.
. . . in the full tide of successful experiment.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people.
Equal rights for all, special privileges for none
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.
The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just
Never trouble another for what you can do yourself
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
The bloom of Monticello is chilled by my solitude.
Most men die at age 25, but aren't buried until 70.
If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.
Coffee - the favorite drink of the civilized world.
Question with boldness even the existence of a god.
Books may be classed from the Faculties of the mind
Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
A room without books is like a life without meaning.
Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.
An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
We might have been a free and great people together.
Knowledge indeed is a desirable, a lovely possession.
A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle.
Public offices were not made for private convenience.
...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.
Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality
The federal government is our servant, not our master.
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
A free government is of all others the most energetic.