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Let Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief…
- 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…
- It is not the policy of the government in America to give aid to works of any kind. They let things take their natural course…
- Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty…
- What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not…
- The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts…
- 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…
- We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation…
- [If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if…
- 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…
- Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.
- The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one…
- Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our…
- I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is better than that…
- With earnest prayers to all my friends to cherish mutual good will, to promote harmony and conciliation, and above all things to let the love…
- Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.
- Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the…
- Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
- But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either party? The ultimate…
- Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment.
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