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> [A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/a-superintending-power-to-maintain-the-universe-in-its-course-and/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/agreeable-society-is-the-first-essential-in-constituting-the/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/blest-is-that-nation-whose-silent-course-of-happiness-furnishes/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/no-generation-has-a-right-to-contract-debts-greater-than-can-be-paid/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-course-of-history-shows-that-as-a-government-grows-liberty/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/old-heads-as-well-as-young-may-sometimes-be-charged-with-ignorance/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/when-the-course-of-events-shall-have-removed-you-to-distant-scenes-of/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [It is not the policy of the government in America to give aid to works of any kind. They let things take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/it-is-not-the-policy-of-the-government-in-america-to-give-aid-to/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [A truth now and then projecting into the ocean of newspaper lies serves like headlands to correct our course. Indeed, my scepticism…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/a-truth-now-and-then-projecting-into-the-ocean-of-newspaper-lies/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [Men of energy of character must have enemies; because there are two sides to every question, and taking one with decision, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/men-of-energy-of-character-must-have-enemies-because-there-are-two/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-fact-is-that-one-new-idea-leads-to-another-that-to-a-third-and-so/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [A noiseless course, not meddling with the affairs of others, unattractive of notice, is a mark that society is going on in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/a-noiseless-course-not-meddling-with-the-affairs-of-others/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/in-the-spring-he-will-attend-your-botanical-course-his-natural-turn/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/when-in-the-course-of-human-events-it-becomes-necessary-for-one-2/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [It has also been a great solace to me, to believe that you are engaged in vindicating to posterity the course we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/it-has-also-been-a-great-solace-to-me-to-believe-that-you-are-engaged/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/who-will-govern-the-governors-there-is-only-one-force-in-the-nation/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [The principles on which we engaged, of which the charter of our independence is the record, were sanctioned by the laws of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-principles-on-which-we-engaged-of-which-the-charter-of-our/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [During the course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/during-the-course-of-administration-and-in-order-to-disturb-it-the/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in thirteen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-late-rebellion-in-massachusetts-has-given-more-alarm-than-i-think/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-earth-belongs-to-the-living-no-man-can-by-natural-right-oblige/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [The fumes of the most disordered imaginations were recorded in their religious code, as special communications of the Deity; and as it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-fumes-of-the-most-disordered-imaginations-were-recorded-in-their/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [I am not fully informed of the practices at Harvard, but there is one from which we shall certainly vary, although it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-am-not-fully-informed-of-the-practices-at-harvard-but-there-is-one/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/female-education-has-occupied-my-attention-so-far-only-as-the/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-think-myself-that-we-have-more-machinery-of-government-than-is/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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## Other authors on Courses

## More by Thomas Jefferson

> [A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/a-man-has-a-right-to-use-a-saw-an-axe-a-plane-separately-may-he-not/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

> [Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/believing-with-you-that-religion-is-a-matter-which-lies-solely/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

> [ \[States and the Federal government are\] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/states-and-the-federal-government-are-coordinate-departments-of-one/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

> [I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-am-for-freedom-of-religion-and-against-all-maneuvers-to-bring-about/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

> [Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/single-acts-of-tyranny-may-be-ascribed-to-the-accidental-opinion-of-a/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

> [“Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/perceiving-the-order-of-nature-to-be-that-individual-happiness-shall/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

> [Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/free-government-is-founded-in-jealousy-and-not-in-confidence-it-is/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

> [Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/though-you-cannot-see-when-you-take-one-step-what-will-be-the-next/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

> [A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/a-well-informed-citizenry-is-the-best-defense-against-tyranny/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

> [The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-two-principles-on-which-our-conduct-towards-the-indians-should-be/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

> [Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/knowledge-is-power-knowled-ge-is-safety-knowle-dge-is-happiness/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

> [There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/there-is-an-artificial-aristocracy-founded-on-wealth-and-birth/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

> [Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/nothing-but-free-argument-raillery-and-even-ridicule-will-preserve/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

> [When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/when-the-people-are-afraid-of-the-government-that-s-tyranny-but-when/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

> [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/we-hold-these-truths-to-be-self-evident-that-all-men-are-created/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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