I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.
Quote by Thomas Jefferson
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I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
- One man with courage is a majority.
- I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
- I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
- The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
- Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
- My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
- Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
- He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- 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.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- The past is a story you can't change, but the future is a limitless destiny you can venture. Make your own history and your story shall live to be told.
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
- Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
- In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.
- Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
- Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
- There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
- If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
- Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
- For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.