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Rather Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism.…
- Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.
- Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And never…
- Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through…
- It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that as yet we…
- The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have…
- I would rather be judged by 12 farmers than 12 scholars.
- It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or an evil I…
- I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would…
- Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. ... With hearts fortified ... we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that... we will,…
- Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.
- Always take hold of things by the smooth handle grateful that they are not worse rather than the rough handle, bitter that they are not…
- One had rather have no opinion than a false one.
- I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided in sufficient proportion,…
- I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
- Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more…
- I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon,…
- Thomas Jefferson asked himself “In what country on earth would you rather live †He first answered “Certainly in my own where are all my…
- Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . .…
- I should . . . prefer swallowing one incomprehensibility rather than two. It requires one effort only to admit the single incomprehensibility of matter endowed…
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- Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your… — Rowan Atkinson