"During the late war I had an infallible……" — Thomas Jefferson
"During the late war I had an infallible rule for deciding what Great Britain would do on every occasion. It was, to consider what they ought to do, and to take the reverse of that as what they would assuredly do, and I can say with truth that I was never deceived."
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1,437 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson has 1,437 quotes on this site.
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Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
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Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your…
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[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able…
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The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted…
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It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral…
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The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
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If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better…
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature,…
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
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I can assuredly say that it's my life's mission to love all people.
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The attitude of saints toward their possessions most assuredly signifies whether they continue to preserve their self life or whether…
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To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff.
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Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a…
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If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer…
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Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be…
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I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish…
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Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
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Life, in a body whose order and state of affairs can make it manifest, is assuredly, as I have said,…
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The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business…
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When the heart is once won to rest in God, to repose himself on him, he will assuredly satisfy it.…
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The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh...The…
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