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Our legislators are not suffi...

Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

No government should be witho...

No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

No experiment can be more int...

No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

I am not an advocate for freq...

I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

An elective despotism was not...

An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among general bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

To preserve our independence,...

To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

An enlightened citizenry is i...

An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a republic. Self-government is not possible unless the citizens are educated sufficiently to enable them to exercise oversight. It is therefore imperative that the nation see to it that a suitable education be provided for all its citizens.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

The policy of the American go...

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

Those who live by mystery & c...

Those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy - the most sublime and benevolent, but most perverted system that ever shone on man - endeavored to crush your well-earned & well-deserved fame.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

A democratic society depends ...

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

Beer, if drank with moderatio...

Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

The Christian god can easily ...

The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster cruel vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging three headed beast like god one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes fools and hypocrites.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

The greatest good we can do o...

The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

The contest is not between us...

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 2120 quotes

[T]he States can best govern ...

[T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore . . . never to see all offices transferred to Washington, where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly be bought and sold at market.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

Had the doctrines of Jesus be...

Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

Hemp is of first necessity to...

Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

I have sworn upon the altar o...

I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

The constitutional freedom of...

The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

When I hear another express a...

When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion, as I to mine. Why should I question it? His error does me no injury, and shall I become a Don Quixote, to bring all men by force of argument to one opinion? ...Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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