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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
![Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced me that this would be very mischievous Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/983/982286/982286.webp "Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced me that this would be very mischievous Picture Quote #1")
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Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one’s family and affairs. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced me that this would be very mischievous. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The greatest honor of a man is in doing good to his fellow men, not in destroying them (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Yet by such worthless beings is a great nation to be governed and even made to deify their old king because he is only a fool and a maniac, and to forgive and forget his having lost to them a great and flourishing empire. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I have much confidence that we shall proceed successfully for ages to come. My hope of its duration is built much on the enlargement of the resources of life going hand in hand with the enlargement of territory. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good? (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Religion, morality, and knowledge are necessary for good government... Therefore schools and the means of educating the people should always be encouraged. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
No one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it’s effect towards supporting free and good government. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism... (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Racial rhetoric has been entwined with government from the start, all the way back to when the enemy was not Obamacare but the Grand Army of the Republic (and further in the past than that: Thomas Jefferson, after all, was derided as ‘the Negro President’). (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson’s bold vision for westward expansion for America. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.--The Fruit Hunters (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption’s of time and party, its members would become despots. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I extremely believe in luck, and I discovered more hard work, your luck as much (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
In the middle of Hillary Clinton’s push for national healthcare in 1993, Bill Clinton cited Thomas Jefferson’s concern for health issues as, somehow, apparently indicative of a need for federal management of the nation’s healthcare system. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Never spend your money before you have it (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)