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Thomas Jefferson Quotes

«I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.»
«Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both always in proportion as it is free.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson (Author, President) | About: Liberty | Keywords: parent, proportion
«I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.»
«I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances, to be open and generous, promoting in the long run even the interests of both; and I am sure it promotes their happin»
«For Heaven's sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum»
«Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree (for all forbid us to steal, murder, plunder, or bear false witness), and that we should n»
«He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual.»
«I live for books.»
«We must do our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies»
«The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.»