Need an original paper?
Buy Essay Now
Research Database of Quotes
It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. Paper-Research now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.
Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.
Browse Authors
(Click a letter to view the authors)
Thomas Jefferson Quotes
«On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Fashion
| Keywords:
current, rock, swim, The Current
«The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
free expression, legitimate| Occasions:
4th of July
«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. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Newspapers
| Keywords:
hesitate, Hesitated, hesitating, latter, newspapers, papers
«If Americans ever allow banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
Banks, currencies, currency, deflation, deprive, homeless, inflation, issue, People of, wake up
«But friendship is precious, not only in shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Cute friendship,
Friendship
| Keywords:
arrangement, benevolent, shade, The Arrangement
«When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself public property»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
assumes, property, public property, public trust
«I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Medicine
| Keywords:
abhor, abhorring, compelled, disbelieve, disbelieved, disbelieves, disbelieving, medicines, recover, saved
«A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
citizen, doubtless, higher law, obligation, observance, observances, of necessity, preservation, saving, self preservation, strict, stricter, strictest