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To be really useful, we must ...

To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or occupations will fail in attempting.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

Without society, and a societ...

Without society, and a society to our taste, men are never contented.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

A single zealot may commence ...

A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

No one, I hope, can doubt my ...

No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question is not what we wish, but what is practicable.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

A community of small farmers....

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 2120 quotes

We are overdone with banking ...

We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium... These have withdrawn capital from useful improvements and employments to nourish idleness... These are evils more easily to be deplored than remedied.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

God forbid we should ever be ...

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion... We have had thirteen States independent for eleven years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half, for each State. What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

A rising nation, spread over ...

A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful Land, traversing all the seas with the rich production of their Industry.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

The best commentary on the pr...

The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

I am conscious that an equal ...

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 2120 quotes

A pirate spreading misery and...

A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

The dominion which the bankin...

The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

The execution of the laws is ...

The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

For themselves they fought, f...

For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

We shall all consider ourselv...

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 2120 quotes

The parties of Whig and Tory ...

The parties of Whig and Tory are those of nature. They exist in all countries, whether called by these names or by those of Aristocrats and Democrats, Cote Droite and Cote Gauche, Ultras and Radicals, Serviles and Liberals. The sickly, weakly, timid man fears the people, and is a Tory by nature. The healthy, strong and bold cherishes them, and is formed a Whig by nature.

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Amplification is the vice of ...

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

Agreeable society is the firs...

Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

We must endeavor to forget ou...

We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

The following [addition to th...

The following [addition to the Bill of Rights] would have pleased me: The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or otherwise to publish anything but false facts affecting injuriously the life, liberty or reputation of others, or affecting the peace of the [United States] with foreign nations.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

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