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American Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University…
- what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil…
- Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his…
- Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect,…
- Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . .…
- The cement of this union is in the heart blood of every American. I do not believe there is on earth a government established on…
- We shall divert through our own Country a branch of commerce which the European States have thought worthy of the most important struggles and sacrifices,…
- If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed,
- 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…
- The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. But their virtuous feelings…
- The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that…
- I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can…
- It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate.
- Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art .
- If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
- The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.
- If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations…
- The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.
- The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.
- If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to…
- When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the rest have a natural right…
- Of all the errors which can possibly be committed to the education of youth, that of sending them to Europe is themost fatal. I see…
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