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End Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.
- The attempt of Lavoisier to reform chemical nomenclature is premature. One single experiment may destroy the whole filiation of his terms; and his string of…
- No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may…
- No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may…
- He alone who walks strict and upright, and who, in matters of opinion, will be contented that others should be as free as himself and…
- The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their…
- It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is…
- Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions of the day,…
- It is unfortunate that the efforts of mankind to recover the freedom of which they have been so long deprived, will be accompanied with violence,…
- No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the…
- I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of men, and inclined…
- All through your life, you'll be faced with making a decision between two things-choose the one that is right. If they are both right, then…
- It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end.
- 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.
- Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
- A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The…
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