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Able Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- [Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw off, it will…
- for the present we may groupe the sciences into Professorships as follows, subject however to be changed according to the qualifications of the persons we…
- The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these…
- Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . .…
- It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to…
- The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers to disseminate early…
- If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be ... The People cannot be safe without…
- On the subject of the history of the American Revolution, you ask who shall write it? Who can write it? And who will ever be…
- I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest…
- Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would be as worthy…
- Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
- I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
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