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Speeches that are measured by ...

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

That government is the stronge...

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

We never repent of having eate...

We never repent of having eaten too little.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

The earth belongs to the livin...

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

We did not raise armies for gl...

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

I find that he is happiest of ...

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

No duty the Executive had to p...

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

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

There is a natural aristocracy...

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

The natural cause of the human...

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

The second office in the gover...

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

There is not a sprig of grass ...

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

The good opinion of mankind, l...

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

Were it left to me to decide w...

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

I was bold in the pursuit of k...

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

Sometimes it is said that man ...

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

I know of no safe depository o...

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

It behooves every man who valu...

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

It is our duty still to endeav...

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

Books constitute capital. A li...

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

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

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