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Experience Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His…
- The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at…
- We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses…
- 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…
- Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the…
- Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has formed man insusceptible…
- Experience has proved to us that a dollar of silver disappears for every dollar of paper emitted.
- 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,…
- Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.
- 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…
- Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into…
- Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of…
- The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.
- Living is something everyone can do, but few actually experience
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