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Which Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
- There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
- Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
- I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by…
- Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good…
- It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars…
- Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of…
- It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
- If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and…
- The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
- All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to…
- It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
- How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
- No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
- The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
- That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
- Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more…
- I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which…
- An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations…
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