| 124 Famous Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
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“The earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.”
Earth Quotes |
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“I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers ... We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the.”
Economy Quotes |
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“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.”
Education Quotes |
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“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.”
Freedom of the press Quotes |
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“That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves.”
Government Quotes |
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“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
Government Quotes |
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“It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour.”
Law Quotes |
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“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.”
Liberty Quotes |
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“It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.”
Liberty Quotes |
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“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure.”
Liberty Quotes |
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“The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.”
Liberty Quotes |
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“It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.”
Majority Quotes |
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“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”
Peace Quotes |
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“No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.”
President Quotes |
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“Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to admit it.”
Reason Quotes |
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“A little rebellion now and then ... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.”
Rebellion Quotes |
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“The hole and the patch should be commensurate.”
Reform Quotes |
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“Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.”
Ridicule Quotes |
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Rights Quotes |
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“Taste cannot be controlled by law.”
Taste Quotes |
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“The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.”
Truth Quotes |
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“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
Tyranny Quotes |
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“Victory and defeat are each of the same price.”
Victory Quotes |
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“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”
Vigilance Quotes |
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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