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Think Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a…
- I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure…
- among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of their originals ...…
- I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.
- Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His…
- I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
- I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there…
- 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…
- Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place…
- 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…
- I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the…
- My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on…
- It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to…
- [If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if…
- It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to…
- It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified.
- Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from…
- 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 think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.
- The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that there shall always…
- From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as…
- That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish…
- But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire…
- I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than…
- The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless... From the conclusion of this war we shall…
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