"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 the constant companion of your walks."
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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"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
thomas jefferson
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"This is the Fourth?" (Referring to July 4th - the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.)
thomas jefferson
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"Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one."
thomas jefferson
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"I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."
thomas jefferson
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"In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty."
thomas jefferson
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"I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy."
thomas jefferson
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"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."
