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Forms Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- 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…
- Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will.
- 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.
- Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
- 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…
- It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
- We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and therefore…
- A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
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