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The uniform tenor of a man’s life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
With all the imperfections of our present government, it is without comparison the best existing, or that ever did exist (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
A man’s moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Nothing but a necessity invincible by any other means can justify... a prostitution of laws, which constitute the pillars of our whole system of jurisprudence (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
It is not to the moderation and justice of others we are to trust for fair and equal access to market with out productions, or for our due share in the transportation of them; but to our own means of independence, and the firm will to use them (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Those who have once got an ascendancy, and possessed themselves of all the resources of the nation, their revenues and offices, have immense means for retaining their advantage (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
When an instrument admits two constructions, the one safe, the other dangerous, the one precise, the other indefinite, I prefer that which is safe and precise (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The physician is happy in the attachment of the families in which he practices. All think he has saved one of them, and he finds himself everywhere a welcome guest, a home in every house (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
It is wonderful to me that old men should not be sensible that their minds keep pace with their bodies in the progress of decay (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
There is a fulness of time when men should go, and not occupy too long the ground to which others have a right to advance (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
When you are doubting whether a thing is worth the trouble of going to see, recollect that you will never again be so near it. You may repent not having seen it, but you can never repent having seen it (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise, and the weather shall be little regarded. If the body is feeble, the mind will not be strong (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam to a carriage on wheels will make a great change in the situation of man (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
A community of small farmers... land property owners, will be the only assurance that the freedom our republic offers will be guaranteed to each and every citizen (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
We are completely saddled and bridled, and... the bank is so firmly mounted on us that we must go where it will guide (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves; and consequently within what may be deemed the period of a generation, or the life of the majority (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Communities should be planned with an eye to the effect on the human spirit of being continually surrounded by a maximum of beauty (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The contest is not between us and them, but between good and evil, and if those who would fight evil adopt the ways of evil, evil wins (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The information of the people at large can alone make them the safe as they are the sole depositary of our political and religious freedom (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
It is highly interesting to our country, and it is the duty of its functionaries, to provide that every citizen in it should receive an education proportioned to the condition and pursuits of his life (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in their times (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)