| 124 Famous Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
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“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
America and americans Quotes |
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“No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity”
Nations Quotes |
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“Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.”
Ageing Quotes |
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“Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to it’s liberty and interests by the most lasting bands”
Agriculture Quotes |
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“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
Ambition Quotes |
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“If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest”
America and americans Quotes |
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“By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments.”
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“There is...an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents.... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy.”
Aristocracy Quotes |
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“Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity”
Aristocracy Quotes |
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“All authority belongs to the people”
Authority Quotes |
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“Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.”
Bigotry Quotes |
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“The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.”
Caring Quotes |
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“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”
Circumstances Quotes |
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“The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights.”
Citizenship Quotes |
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“All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.”
Civil rights Quotes |
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“If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest”
Conquest Quotes |
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“Conquest is not in our principles; it is inconsistent with our government”
Conquest Quotes |
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“I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.”
Crime Quotes |
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“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.”
Deception Quotes |
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“Delay is preferable to error.”
Delay Quotes |
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“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”
Democracy Quotes |
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“Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.”
Dishonesty Quotes |
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“I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.”
Economics Quotes |
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“If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism”
Fanaticism Quotes |
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“On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
Fashion Quotes |
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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