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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

Thomas Jefferson

Government

Hope

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Thomas Jefferson

Friend

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

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.

Thomas Jefferson

Exercise

Walking

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

Thomas Jefferson

War

Wrong

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Thomas Jefferson

Liberty

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

Thomas Jefferson

Conquest

Glory

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.