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

Quote by Thomas Jefferson

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Every generation needs a new revolution.

Every generation needs a new revolution.

Religions are all alike -- founded upon fables and mythologies

Religions are all alike -- founded upon fables and mythologies

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less...

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less...

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government....

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government....

All authority belongs to the people

All authority belongs to the people

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave the consequences to Him who...

My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave the consequences to Him who...

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power...

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power...

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from truth who believes nothing,...

Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from truth who believes nothing,...

I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.

I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale...

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale...

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover...

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover...

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of...

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of...

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without...

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without...

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.