"It will take a thousand years for the……" — Thomas Jefferson
"It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific"
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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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More Frontier Quotes
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one of 181 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of…
— Stanley Baldwin
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It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that…
— William Bartram
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Incredibly, almost every hotel I ever played in Vegas was blown up shortly afterward: The Dunes, The Sands, The Landmark,…
— Elayne Boosler
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The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on…
— Ralph Chaplin
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But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and…
— Madonna Ciccone
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I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and…
— Tadao Ando
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You can tell when you have crossed the frontier into Germany because of the badness of the coffee.
— Edward VII
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Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!
— Benito Mussolini
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The oceans are the planet's last great living wilderness, man's only remaining frontier on earth, and perhaps his last chance…
— Unknown Author
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I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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During 1866 and 1922, Native Americans and black soldiers often intermingled in the American west, on the frontier.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I strongly oppose cloning, as do most Americans. We recoil at the idea of growing human beings for spare body…
— George W. Bush
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