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Large Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there…
- I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can be most useful…
- The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at…
- Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to reflect on the…
- A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most…
- Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and importers led by Paul, the first great…
- The most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to…
- When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
- The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.
- I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under…
- Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the…
- The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale
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