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Some Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance…
- I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but…
- I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.
- You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of equal note, reject…
- Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands…
- If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of…
- Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the sciences…
- A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a younger and more…
- May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to…
- If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or driven…
- We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent…
- I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is better than that…
- We shall divert through our own Country a branch of commerce which the European States have thought worthy of the most important struggles and sacrifices,…
- Some other natural rights... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights.
- If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves. It were contrary to feeling and indeed…
- In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open,…
- It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.
- That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a…
- I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of…
- If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate, his office, though nominally elective,…
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- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
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