Time Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
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Jefferson worries that newspapers could swallow a ruler’s time, and that a people’s spirit of resistance must be reminded often. He argues that the common sense of citizens is the best army, even if they stray for a moment. He also sketches a daily schedule that mixes music, dance, and drawing.
![“It is time enough, for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere [in the propagation of religious teachings] when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fac/thomas-jefferson-43_break_it-is-time-enough-for-the-rightful-purpo_2061978.jpg)
![“History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future. . . . It will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men: it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f41/thomas-jefferson-43_action_history-by-apprising-them-the-people-of_1568717.jpg)
![“Specie [gold and silver coin] is the most perfect medium because it will preserve its own level; because, having intrinsic and universal value, it can never die in our hands, and it is the surest resource of reliance in time of war.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e33/thomas-jefferson-43_coins_specie-gold-and-silver-coin-is-the-most_2462181.jpg)
![“We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent, (as in electing their…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9c2/thomas-jefferson-43_2-amendment_we-established-however-some-although-not_2082638.jpg)
![“[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a5c/thomas-jefferson-43_disposition_f-alsehood-of-the-tongue-leads-to-that-o_1314946.jpg)
![“History, by apprising [the people] of the past, will enable them to judge of the future.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/192/thomas-jefferson-43_history_history-by-apprising-the-people-of-the-p_2577948.jpg)
