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Art Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
- I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but…
- In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first…
- The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet invented sufficient aids…
- It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we…
- Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the sciences…
- The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.
- The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with…
- It is a cruel thought, that, when we feel ourselves standing on the firmest ground in every respect, the cursed arts of our secret enemies,…
- In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first…
- The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should consider the speeches…
- The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.
- Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art .
- The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.
- I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my…
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