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Thomas Jefferson Quotes

«We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of hap»
«The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale»
«The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys»
«We may add to the great honor of science and the arts, that their natural effect is, by illuminating public opinion, to erect it into a censor before which the most exalted tremble for their future as well as present fame»
«He is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong»
«When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property»
«We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties, and history bears witness to the fact that a just nation is trusted o»
«I have the honor to be, your Excellency's most obedient humble servant»
«In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution»
«The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most, knows best how little he knows»
Author: Thomas Jefferson (Author, President) | About: Wisdom | Keywords: infallibility