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Thomas Jefferson Quotes

«In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance»
«But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State.»
«The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.»
«The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.»
«Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty»
«Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.»
«Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.»
«Victory and defeat are each of the same price.»
«Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if you do not remember, turn to a dictionary. It produces great praise to a lady to spell well. to his daughter Martha»
«I hope we shall take warning from the example of England and crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our Government to trial, and bid defiance to the laws of our country»