"With nations as with individuals our interests soundly……" — Thomas Jefferson
"With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties."
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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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Furthermore, they had calculated that if 25,000 of them died for every one of us, they would finish with us…
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Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction.
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The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life...The Bible...should be read in…
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Calculated is the truth of adulthood, whereas honest is the truth of a child.
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Dogs, bless them, operate on the premise that human beings are fragile and require incessant applications of affection and reassurance.…
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In [David] Douglas's success in life ... his great activity, undaunted courage, singular abstemiousness, and energetic zeal, at once pointed…
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[Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers…
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Romances, in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment.
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