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Will Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
- Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
- Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within…
- Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how…
- If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
- I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
- 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…
- Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of…
- Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
- I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of…
- I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
- No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
- Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
- 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…
- 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…
- We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind…
- Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
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