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Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
(1743 - 1826)


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DemocracyA democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
LawyersIt is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.
LiesHe who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second time.
LuckI am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
NewpapersI do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
NewspapersThe advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
NewspapersThe man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
PoliticsNo man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
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