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Moments Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- 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…
- What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty,…
- It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed by those who…
- 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…
- 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…
- Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And never…
- Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.
- The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. But their virtuous feelings…
- An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never been a moment…
- Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may again…
- 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 spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless... From the conclusion of this war we shall…
- The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
- Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a…
- The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
- Peace, that glorious moment in time when everyone stops and reloads.
- No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case…
- The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
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