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Whom Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom…
- Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And…
- I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set…
- The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity…
- I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.
- Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom…
- The Gothic idea that we were to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and to recur to the annals…
- God has formed us moral agents... that we may promote the happiness of those with whom He has placed us in society, by acting honestly…
- Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.
- ... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering. I…
- Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness…
- The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.
- The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever more dangerous. Jesus had to work on the perilous confines of reason and…
- I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
- It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must…
- He is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad
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