Pruning Knife Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

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• Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most…
• No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad…
• We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober…
• Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind…
• in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses…
• the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we…
• I sincerely wish you may find it convenient to come here. the pleasure of the trip will be less than you expect,…
• [Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw…

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