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It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
Thomas Jefferson
God
Gods
Injury
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson
Ideas
Nothing
Wrong
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas Jefferson
Government
Truth
Error
Needs
Support
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
Thomas Jefferson
Religion
Words
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
Thomas Jefferson
World
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
Friendship
Life
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
Happiness
Wealth
Occupation
Tranquility
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas Jefferson
Life
Men
Books
Years
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
Thomas Jefferson
Men
Time
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
Thomas Jefferson
Health
Exercise
Learning
Reading
Recreation
Will
Worth
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
Thomas Jefferson
People
Authority
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Thomas Jefferson
Mankind
Right
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Thomas Jefferson
Country
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
Thomas Jefferson
Money
Morality
Commerce
Nations
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Thomas Jefferson
Fear
May