All Thomas Jefferson Quotes
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
Thomas Jefferson
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I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
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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.
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All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Thomas Jefferson
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I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
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Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
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An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
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If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
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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.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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