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Better Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.
- The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to…
- State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he…
- The future inhabitants of [both] the Atlantic and Mississippi states will be our sons. We think we see their happiness in their union, and we…
- 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…
- Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands…
- Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.
- The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves.
- I am entirely persuaded that the agitations of the public mind advance its powers, and that at every vibration between the points of liberty and…
- The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out…
- The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one…
- War is not the best engine for us to resort to; nature has given us one in our commerce, which if properly managed, will be…
- Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through…
- I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is better than that…
- It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that as yet we…
- The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of…
- Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose…
- Always take hold of things by the smooth handle grateful that they are not worse rather than the rough handle, bitter that they are not…
- It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and…
- If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority of the government,…
- Who better to so softly bind the wound of one, than she who has suffered the wound herself.
- The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as…
- I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. I…
- The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
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