Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers.

No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.

Ignorance is a poor tool in a battle of wits.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

The Bible makes the best people in the world.

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

The hole and the patch should be commensurate.

Wine brightens the life and thinking of anyone

What i value more than all things, good humor.

It is better to have no ideas than false ones.

Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.

Freedom [is] the first-born daughter of science

Those are governed best who are governed least.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.

Music...This is the favorite passion of my soul.

One had rather have no opinion than a false one.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people.

Every man has two countries: his own and France.

Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.

. . . in the full tide of successful experiment.

A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry

That government that governs least governs best.

The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.

The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

The bloom of Monticello is chilled by my solitude.

Never trouble another for what you can do yourself

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

Coffee - the favorite drink of the civilized world.

Books may be classed from the Faculties of the mind

Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

Most men die at age 25, but aren't buried until 70.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.

Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

We might have been a free and great people together.

A room without books is like a life without meaning.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?

A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle.

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