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Our Own Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely the ravings of…
- All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.
- To me... it appears that there have been differences of opinion and party differences, from the first establishment of government to the present day, and…
- The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public…
- Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our…
- We shall divert through our own Country a branch of commerce which the European States have thought worthy of the most important struggles and sacrifices,…
- God has formed us moral agents... that we may promote the happiness of those with whom He has placed us in society, by acting honestly…
- Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter…
- Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.
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