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True Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the states are independent as to everything within themselves and united as…
- 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…
- 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…
- Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural…
- The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.
- Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong…
- To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer,…
- [T]he true key for the construction of everything doubtful in a law is the intention of the law-makers. This is most safely gathered from the…
- As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers.
- A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
- What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no…
- The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws,…
- Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings…
- But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either party? The ultimate…
- Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true,…
- You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be…
- The only true corrective of Constitutional abuses is education.
- The eyes of our citizens are not sufficiently open to the true cause of our distress. They ascribe them to everything but their true cause,…
- Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at…
- The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that…
- The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as…
- Reason and free inquiry are the only effective agents against error. Give a loose to them, they will support the true religion by bringing every…
- The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the…
- A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their…
- I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
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