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Done Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me.
- The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to…
- Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the…
- This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be…
- A single good government becomes... a blessing to the whole earth, its welcome to the oppressed restraining within certain limits the measure of their oppressions.…
- If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done…
- To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer,…
- From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as…
- I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of…
- It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they…
- Convinced that the republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind, my…
- No man has done everything he can who has done only his best.
- 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…
- Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object: the public good; but they differ essentially…
- Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
- Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how…
- So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done,…
- If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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