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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Thomas Jefferson
Happiness
Being
Body
Mind
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Thomas Jefferson
Truth
Errors
Mind
Nothing
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
Thomas Jefferson
Government
History
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
Wisdom
Honesty
First
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
Thomas Jefferson
Pain
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.
Thomas Jefferson
Philosophy
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Thomas Jefferson
State
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Thomas Jefferson
Errors
May
Opinion
Reason
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
People
Liberty
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson
People
Body
Dawn
Day
Evil
Mind
Spirits
Tyranny
Will
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
Thomas Jefferson
War
Mankind
One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
Thomas Jefferson
Hope
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
Thomas Jefferson
Government
Press
Will
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
Thomas Jefferson
Man
Presidency
Reputation
Will
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
Thomas Jefferson
Culture
Earth
Garden
Occupation