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Good Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.
- no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect towards supporting free…
- what is wanting to restore us to our station among our confederates? not more money from the people. enough has been raised by them, and…
- Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.
- Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
- Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His…
- The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to…
- 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…
- No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be informed by education…
- The future inhabitants of [both] the Atlantic and Mississippi states will be our sons. We think we see their happiness in their union, and we…
- The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time…
- You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of equal note, reject…
- If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of…
- It is time enough, for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere [in the propagation of religious teachings] when principles break…
- No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former…
- Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption of principles, and…
- A single good government becomes... a blessing to the whole earth, its welcome to the oppressed restraining within certain limits the measure of their oppressions.…
- We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober sense of our…
- I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of…
- If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done…
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