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One Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- [Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw off, it will…
- Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of…
- When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the…
- with respect to the distribution of your time the following is what I should approve. from 8. to 10 o'clock practise music. from 10. to…
- no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect towards supporting free…
- Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother…
- Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one…
- Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public…
- We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and obedience to the…
- The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands…
- Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest…
- 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…
- 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…
- An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which…
- 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…
- To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the…
- Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place…
- The attempt of Lavoisier to reform chemical nomenclature is premature. One single experiment may destroy the whole filiation of his terms; and his string 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…
- Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the…
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