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Form Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
- The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.
- The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe…
- I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely…
- If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of…
- The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity…
- Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing…
- With the same honest views, the most honest men often form different conclusions.
- I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.
- The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And indeed it would…
- [T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [the Constitution] has established .…
- We shall divert through our own Country a branch of commerce which the European States have thought worthy of the most important struggles and sacrifices,…
- I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of…
- I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man", "I have sworn upon the…
- The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them. ... Love…
- The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that…
- Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will.
- Convinced that the republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind, my…
- 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…
- The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
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