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Thomas Jefferson Quotes

«Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reenactments; because a constant hold by the nation of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not to wish nor a corrupt one to be permitted to be f»
«The good sense of the people will always be found to be the best army»
«The people are the only censors of their governors, and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution»
«The hole and the patch should be commensurate»
«An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town-meeting or a vestry»
«Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue»
«Force cannot give right»
«How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened»
«In fact, it is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has been held in vassalage by kings, priests, and nobles; and it is honorable for us, to have produced the first legislature w»
«Peace with all nations, and the rights which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object»