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None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.
Thomas Jefferson
Army
Nation
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson
Attitude
Goal
Earth
Help
Man
Nothing
Right
Wrong
Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
Thomas Jefferson
Rights
Man
Nothing
One man with courage is a majority.
Thomas Jefferson
Courage
Majority
Man
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
Thomas Jefferson
Credit
Duty
Mankind
Will
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Thomas Jefferson
Power
Corruption
Country
Destruction
First
Now
Road
Will
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas Jefferson
Happiness
Life
Health
Chance
Conscience
Freedom
Occupation
Result
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson
Government
History
Reading
Results
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
Thomas Jefferson
Duty
Man
Right
Trying
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Thomas Jefferson
Circumstances
Nothing
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
Thomas Jefferson
War
Duty
Fire
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Thomas Jefferson
Today
Tomorrow
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
Thomas Jefferson
Alliance
Commerce
Nations
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
Thomas Jefferson
Money
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
Thomas Jefferson
Change
Values
Circumstances
Conscience
Liberty
Man
May