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Thomas Jefferson Quotes

«I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.»
«If government have a right of demanding ad libitum and of taxing us themselves to the full amount of their demand if we do not comply with it, this would leave us without anything we can call property»
«If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form let them stand undisturbed as monuments to the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it»
«No man will ever bring out of the presidency the reputation which carries him into it»
«Laws and institutions must go hand and hand with the progress of the human mind»
«Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.»
«I am captivated more by dreams of the future than by the history of the past»
«Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery.»
«If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.»
«The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.»