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Thomas Jefferson Quotes

«On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.»
«The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.»
«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»
«One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson (Author, President) | Keywords: occasion
«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»
«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»
«When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself public property»
«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»
«Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.»
«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.»