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Many Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.
- I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.
- Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the…
- The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to…
- I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
- 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 concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the…
- Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the sciences…
- A government regulating itself by what is wise and just for the many, uninfluenced by the local and selfish views of the few who direct…
- The division into whig and tory is founded in the nature of men; the weakly and nerveless, the rich and the corrupt, seeing more safety…
- To me... it appears that there have been differences of opinion and party differences, from the first establishment of government to the present day, and…
- 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…
- Born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not listening to wicked…
- Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that,…
- Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through…
- On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that…
- 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…
- I may err in my measures, but never shall deflect from the intention to fortify the public liberty by every possible means, and to put…
- Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you....
- "It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to their governors the…
More Many Quotes
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — Mary Kay Ash
- So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the… — Mary Kay Ash