“A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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“As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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“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.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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“There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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“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.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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“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.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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“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.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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“So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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