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Books constitute capital. A l...

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

I am mortified to be told tha...

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.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

Friendship is but another nam...

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

As our enemies have found we ...

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

If we can but prevent the gov...

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

In defense of our persons and...

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

So confident am I in the inte...

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

No duty the Executive had to ...

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

No government ought to be wit...

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

Here was buried Thomas Jeffer...

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

An enemy generally says and b...

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

In truth, politeness is artif...

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

It behooves every man who val...

It behooves 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.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

I am an Epicurean. I consider...

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

The course of history shows t...

The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

The spirit of 1776 is not dea...

The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. But their virtuous feelings have been played on by some fact with more fiction; they have been the dupes of artful maneuvers, and made for a moment to be willing instruments in forging chains for themselves. But times and truth dissipated the delusion, and opened their eyes.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

Evil triumphs when good men d...

Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

I think we have more machiner...

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

To consider judges as the ult...

To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

Laws that forbid the carrying...

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....