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Time Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- 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…
- we defer therefore till this time twelve month to avail ourselves of the instruction of that place, and particularly of your kindness in the two…
- 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…
- 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…
- What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not…
- The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts…
- When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives…
- The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time…
- 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…
- But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who…
- It is time enough, for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere [in the propagation of religious teachings] when principles break…
- Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption of principles, and…
- The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out…
- Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to reflect on the…
- With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thing-but health,…
- It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified.
- In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and one of these,…
- To me... it appears that there have been differences of opinion and party differences, from the first establishment of government to the present day, and…
- I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every nation, if undertaken…
- Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.
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