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Prefer Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
- I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me.
- The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left…
- I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
- I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude
- Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
- Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a…
- I should . . . prefer swallowing one incomprehensibility rather than two. It requires one effort only to admit the single incomprehensibility of matter endowed…
- Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment…
- Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a…
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