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- The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The…
- We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
- The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
- All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief…
- When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the…
- No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to…
- the field of knolege is the common property of all mankind
- I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man.
- this last establishment will probably be within a mile of Charlottesville, and four from Monticello, if the system should be adopted at all by our…
- A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so…
- among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of their originals ...…
- They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.
- The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe…
- Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one…
- His [Calvin's] religion was demonism. If ever man worshiped a false God, he did. The being described in his five points is ... a demon…
- Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that…
- [T]hat the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his…
- The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by…
- Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their…
- All authority belongs to the people.
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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