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Fellow Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest…
- Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty…
- Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . .…
- What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty,…
- I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can be most useful…
- Being myself a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without injury to the…
- That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish…
- I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest…
- An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never been a moment…
- I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means…
- If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my fellow citizens, trophies…
- And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers, if not in…
- An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
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