It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
Quote by Thomas Jefferson
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It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
- Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
- It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
- 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.
- There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
- War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
- In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
- The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
- A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
- Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
- Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Best Quotes
- I get along with guys most of my friends are guys. It's easier to trust men sometimes. I only have a few close girlfriends that I trust.
- Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.
- What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?
- I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
- As it seems to me, the poetry of the highest rank or the most real verses isn't created anywhere, except dramatic situation, or when Melpomene wins a victory over Euterpe.
- It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
- The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
- The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
- Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.
- Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.