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> [It is in the love of one's family only that heartfelt happiness is known.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/it-is-in-the-love-of-one-s-family-only-that-heartfelt-happiness-is/)

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> [The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-sentiments-of-men-are-known-not-only-by-what-they-receive-but/)

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> [Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/say-nothing-of-my-religion-it-is-known-to-god-and-myself-alone/)

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> [I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-really-look-with-commiseration-over-the-great-body-of-my-fellow/)

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> [Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/truth-will-do-well-enough-if-left-to-shift-for-herself-she-seldom-has/)

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> [Men possessing minds of the first order and who have had opportunities of being known and of acquiring the general confidence do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/men-possessing-minds-of-the-first-order-and-who-have-had/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/say-nothing-of-my-religion-it-is-known-to-god-and-myself-alone-its/)

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> [By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/by-making-this-wine-known-to-the-public-i-have-rendered-my-country-as/)

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> [ I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition \[Christianity\] one… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-have-recently-been-examining-all-the-known-superstitions-of-the/)

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> [Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/nothing-can-now-be-believed-which-is-seen-in-a-newspaper-truth-itself-2/)

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> [It is well known, that on the Ohio, and in many parts of America further north, tusks, grinders, and skeletons of unparalleled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/it-is-well-known-that-on-the-ohio-and-in-many-parts-of-america/)

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> [For St. Paul only says that it is better to be married than to burn. Now I presume that if that apostle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/for-st-paul-only-says-that-it-is-better-to-be-married-than-to-burn/)

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> [In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/in-america-no-other-distinction-between-man-and-man-had-ever-been/)

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> [I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-have-examined-all-of-the-known-superstitions-of-the-world-and-i-do/)

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> [I was much an enemy to monarchies before I came to Europe. I am ten thousand times more so, since I have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-was-much-an-enemy-to-monarchies-before-i-came-to-europe-i-am-ten/)

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> [Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/indeed-we-need-not-look-back-half-a-century-to-times-which-many-now/)

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> [Sir, Your letter of the 15th is received, but Age has long since obliged me to withhold my mind from Speculations of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/sir-your-letter-of-the-15th-is-received-but-age-has-long-since/)

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> [The commotions that have taken place in America, as far as they are yet known to me, offer nothing threatening. They are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-commotions-that-have-taken-place-in-america-as-far-as-they-are/)

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## Other authors on Known

## 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/)

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> [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/)

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> [ \[States and the Federal government are\] 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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [“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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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

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