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Left Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.
- If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of…
- The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left…
- It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to…
- The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves.
- This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may…
- Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom…
- I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of the issue where…
- The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their…
- If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice…
- The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness,…
- Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions of the day,…
- Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.
- Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself.
- The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as…
- That this privilege of giving or of withholding our monies is an important barrier against the undue exertion of prerogative, which if left altogether without…
- One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.
- The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should consider the speeches…
- The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever more dangerous. Jesus had to work on the perilous confines of reason and…
- In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the general government. I…
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