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Single Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.
- 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…
- Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and…
- The attempt of Lavoisier to reform chemical nomenclature is premature. One single experiment may destroy the whole filiation of his terms; and his string of…
- A single good government becomes... a blessing to the whole earth, its welcome to the oppressed restraining within certain limits the measure of their oppressions.…
- I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of…
- The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be…
- It has also been a great solace to me, to believe that you are engaged in vindicating to posterity the course we have pursued for…
- It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good…
- One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.
- The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of…
- There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the…
- Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the hand of nature.…
- If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption.
- To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.
- I do verily believe that if the principle were to prevail of a common law being in force in the United States (which principle possesses…
- One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
- I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
- Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the…
- I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction…
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