"I hope the necessity will at length be……" — Thomas Jefferson
"I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees."
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1,437 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
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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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The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.
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You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you…
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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the…
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let…
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The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence…
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For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be…
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In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the…
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No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made…
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The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested…
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