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Instead Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.
- The Gothic idea that we were to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and to recur to the annals…
- If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should…
- The example of changing a constitution by assembling the wise men of the state, instead of assembling armies, will be worth as much to the…
- The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that there shall always…
- All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn…
- I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of…
- The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.
- What has been the effect of coericion [sic]? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and errors…
- War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
- On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of…
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