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Out Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- It is (our) duty . . . to pay especial attention to the principles of government which shall be inculcated therein (at the University), and…
- It is time enough, for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere [in the propagation of religious teachings] when principles break…
- The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out…
- Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear their…
- I may err in my measures, but never shall deflect from the intention to fortify the public liberty by every possible means, and to put…
- He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
- No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery…
- All we can do is to make the best of our friends, love and cherish what is good in them, and keep out of the…
- Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.
- Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity
- Nothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger successors the honors…
- The First Amendment has created a wall of separation between the church and the State. But that wall is one directional. It is to keep…
- Convinced that the republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind, my…
- If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors without suffering the…
- No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
- Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption…
- not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of…
- On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of…
- No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case…
- I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. . . . We…
- I can not live with out books.
- No man will ever bring out of the presidency the reputation which carries him into it
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