"The policy of the American government is to……" — Thomas Jefferson
"The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits."
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Thomas Jefferson
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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 Aiding Quotes
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A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.
— Charles Dudley Warner
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In the printed page the only real things are the paper and the ink; the white spaces play the same…
— John Burroughs
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I think chemistry is being frittered away by the hairsplitting of the organic chemists; we have new compounds discovered, which…
— Michael Faraday
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The glut of information was dulling awareness, not aiding it.
— Jerry Mander
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Cap and trade generates special interests, lobbyists, and trading schemes, yielding non-productive millionaires, all at public expense. The public is…
— James Hansen
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We are for aiding our allies by sharing some of our material blessings with those nations which share in our…
— Ronald Reagan
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I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
— Charles Darwin
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Our thoughts and prayers continue to go out to every individual who was affected by these powerful storms, ... Despite…
— Steve Largent
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All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the…
— Edwin M. Stanton
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The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were…
— John L. Lewis
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U.S. leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be…
— Fidel Castro
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One of greatest thieves this world has is procrastination, and he is still at large. Are we aiding and abetting…
— Sterling W Sill
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