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Should Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in…
- with respect to the distribution of your time the following is what I should approve. from 8. to 10 o'clock practise music. from 10. to…
- this last establishment will probably be within a mile of Charlottesville, and four from Monticello, if the system should be adopted at all by our…
- female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them…
- what is wanting to restore us to our station among our confederates? not more money from the people. enough has been raised by them, and…
- Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his…
- Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the…
- It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
- Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the…
- An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which…
- I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set…
- The future inhabitants of [both] the Atlantic and Mississippi states will be our sons. We think we see their happiness in their union, and we…
- The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that…
- He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people…
- 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…
- Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . .…
- No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may…
- Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.
- I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can be most useful…
- The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights, and are the only instruments which can be used for their…
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- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. — Jose Maria Aznar
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. — Richard Armour