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Last Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.
- this last establishment will probably be within a mile of Charlottesville, and four from Monticello, if the system should be adopted at all by our…
- 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…
- The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every…
- I have been happy . . . in believing that . . . whatever follies we may be led into as to foreign nations, we…
- In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the…
- Without God, liberty will not last.
- Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all…
- He [Washington] has often declared to me that he considered our new constitution as an experiment on the practicability of republican government, and with what…
- The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us.
- And say, finally, whether peace is best preserved by giving energy to the government or information to the people. This last is the most legitimate…
- I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or…
- The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny…
- The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
- At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.
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- Do every act of your life as if it were your last. — Marcus Aurelius
- Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius
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