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Only Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The…
- The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
- It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with…
- 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…
- The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to…
- ours are the only farmers who can read Homer
- female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them…
- Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his…
- I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results…
- Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that…
- 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…
- Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through…
- Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural…
- If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.
- It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we…
- I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means…
- Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree,…
- The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.
- My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on…
- 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…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle