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Our Country Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education,…
- The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.
- Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded,…
- The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers to disseminate early…
- If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should…
- I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of our country. That wisdom has…
- With earnest prayers to all my friends to cherish mutual good will, to promote harmony and conciliation, and above all things to let the love…
- I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents…
- The constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country.
- In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either…
- Where the principle of difference [between political parties] is as substantial and as strongly pronounced as between the republicans and the monocrats of our country,…
- I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by…
- Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of…
- A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The…
- Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the…
- I hope we shall take warning from the example of England and crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already…
- A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The…
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