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Within 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…
- this last establishment will probably be within a mile of Charlottesville, and four from Monticello, if the system should be adopted at all by our…
- among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of their originals ...…
- Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting…
- Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the sciences…
- A single good government becomes... a blessing to the whole earth, its welcome to the oppressed restraining within certain limits the measure of their oppressions.…
- It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time to restrain the…
- But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that…
- Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our…
- But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to…
- It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good…
- Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent…
- Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.
- 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…
- From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation.
- If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority of the government,…
- Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power…
- 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 have indeed two great measures at heart, without which no republic can maintain itself in strength: 1. That of general education, to enable every…
- 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…
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