Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

"How much pain they have cost us the evils which have never happened."
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"How much pain they have cost us the evils which have never happened."
Thomas Jefferson
"No nation is drunken where wine is cheap and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is in truth the only antidote to the bane of whiskey."
Thomas Jefferson
"War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer."
Thomas Jefferson
"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."
Thomas Jefferson
"The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies."
Thomas Jefferson
"When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself as public property."
Thomas Jefferson
"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."
Thomas Jefferson
"I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past."
Thomas Jefferson
"Taste cannot be controlled by law."
Thomas Jefferson
"I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
Thomas Jefferson
"Peace commerce and honest friendship with all nations - entangling alliances with none."
Thomas Jefferson
"Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far."
Thomas Jefferson
"For God's sake let us freely hear both sides!"
Thomas Jefferson
"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans and must be that of every free state."
Thomas Jefferson
"Equal rights for all special privileges for none."
Thomas Jefferson
"Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us."
Thomas Jefferson
"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
"A republican government is slow to move yet when once in motion its momentum becomes irresistible."
Thomas Jefferson
"The hole and the patch should be commensurate."
Thomas Jefferson
"Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
Thomas Jefferson
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