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Few Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately,…
- What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not…
- 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…
- A government regulating itself by what is wise and just for the many, uninfluenced by the local and selfish views of the few who direct…
- To me... it appears that there have been differences of opinion and party differences, from the first establishment of government to the present day, and…
- 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,…
- Any woodsman can tell you that in a broken and sundered nest, one can hardly find more than a precious few whole eggs. So it…
- I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county,…
- That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.
- I may err in my measures, but never shall deflect from the intention to fortify the public liberty by every possible means, and to put…
- 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…
- It is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land. The…
- If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.
- Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
- I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon,…
- The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
- A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
- All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every…
- The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county,…
- Living is something everyone can do, but few actually experience
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