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Much Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.
- The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to…
- I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
- The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and…
- 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 mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human…
- Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands…
- The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity…
- 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…
- [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…
- To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare…
- Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.
- The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of…
- Being myself a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without injury to the…
- Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong…
- If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done…
- To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and…
- We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.
- 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…
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