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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
«The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
amendment, Amendments, needed, Second Amendment, The Second
«Let what will be said or done, preserve your sang froid immovably, and to every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
immovably, obstacle, oppose, perseverance, preserve, sang-froid, sang, soothes, soothing
«The tree of liberty must be watered periodically with the blood of tyrants and patriots alike. It is its natural manure.»
«The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor am I»
«I have great hope that some patriotic spirit will, at a favorable moment, call (up the law for religious freedom) and make it the keystone of the arch of our government»
«Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Morality
| Keywords:
egoism, plausibly, self interest, self love, substituted
«Taste cannot be controlled by law»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Control,
Justice
| Keywords:
by law, controlled
«Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Bigotry,
Enthusiasm
| Keywords:
antidotes, bigotry, buoyant, discussion, disease, free discussion, morbid, the discussion
«Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometric progression as they rise»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
geometric, geometric progression, inequalities, inequality, lessening, portions, progression, silently, taxation
«The firmness with which the people have withstood the late abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false, and to form a correct judgment b»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
abuses, correct, discernment, falsehood, firmness, manifested, press, safely, the press, trusted, withstanding, withstood