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Thomas Jefferson Quote: “To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “Easter was when they nailed Him to the cross. And He never said a mumbling word.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “The same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and tory belong to natural as well as to civil history. They denote the temper and constitution and mind of different individuals.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “There is not in the British empire a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But by the God that made me, I will cease to exist before I yield to a connection on such terms as the British Parliament propose.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And why subject it to coercion? To produce uniformity. But is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than of face and stature.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “Question with boldness even the existence of a god.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “The law of self-preservation is higher than written law.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of the same character with the first, and completed the supplanting the precious metals by a paper circulation. Between such parties the less we meddle the better.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “With all the imperfections of our present government, it is without comparison the best existing, or that ever did exist.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “He does most in God’s great world who does his best in his own little world.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “The hole and the patch should be commensurate.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be – burdens to those appointed to them which it would be wrong to decline, though foreseen to bring them intense labor and great private loss.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “Cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous and independent citizens.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. – Shall we therefore never do good?”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “The most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government; I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man...”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “The mass of our citizens may be divided into two classes – the laboring and the learned. The laboring will need the first grade of education to qualify them for their pursuits and duties; the learned will need it as a foundation for further acquirements.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world’s best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “Heliotrope. To be sowed in the spring. A delicious flower, but I suspect it must be planted in boxes and kept in the house in the winter. The smell rewards the care.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.”
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism...”
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