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Instruments Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- this interesting subject, which, if the condition of man is to be progressively ameliorated, as we fondly hope and believe, is to be the chief…
- 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,…
- This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be…
- The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights, and are the only instruments which can be used for their…
- The rational and peacable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.
- War is not the best engine for us to resort to; nature has given us one in our commerce, which if properly managed, will be…
- It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good…
- The construction applied . . . to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power . . . ought…
- Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships…
- The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being
- The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. But their virtuous feelings…
- A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price…
- 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…
- 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…
- I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. I…
- War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
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