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Very Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses of lectures, and…
- what is wanting to restore us to our station among our confederates? not more money from the people. enough has been raised by them, and…
- The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and…
- The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and…
- To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the…
- The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left…
- [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…
- Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very precise rules, the…
- I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can be most useful…
- Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that,…
- My construction of the constitution is very different from that you quote. It is that each department is truly independent of the others, and has…
- SIR,-Your letter of February the 18th came to hand on the 1st instant; and the request of the history of my physical habits would have…
- 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…
- And say, finally, whether peace is best preserved by giving energy to the government or information to the people. This last is the most legitimate…
- Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle... Perhaps an editor…
- I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
- When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
- Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
- I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon,…
- 1.Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. 2.Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3.Never spend your money before you…
- Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world; but that he…
- Perfect happiness I believe was never intended by the deity to be the lot of any one of his creatures in this world; but that…
- When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.
- Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
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