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First Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country.
- letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.
- Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect,…
- In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first…
- Freedom, the first-born of science.
- The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left…
- I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.
- To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare…
- By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force 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…
- A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a younger and more…
- I learn with great concern that [one] portion of our frontier so interesting, so important, and so exposed, should be so entirely unprovided with common…
- It's only merit was in being the first publication which carried the claim of our rights their whole length, and asserted that there was no…
- Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.
- I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into…
- The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.
- 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…
- I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
- An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.
- Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts: then the coalition…
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