Thomas Jefferson Quotes - Page 63

• never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Way, Never Trust

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• I am a sect by myself, as far as I know.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Knows, Sects

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.127

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• A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Love, Littles, Given

  Thomas Jefferson, Maria Hadfield Cosway, John P. Kaminski (1999). “Jefferson in Love: The Love Letters Between Thomas Jefferson & Maria Cosway”, p.24, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

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  Peace, War, National Defense

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1789-1792”, p.89, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.

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  Independent, Law, Generations

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• ...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Republican, Federalist

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• Without books, I would certainly die.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Book, Dies

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• So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Two, Tea, World

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”, p.91

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• Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.

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  Men, Justice, Persuasion

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801

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• Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Argument, Pagan

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• no people can be both ignorant and free.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, Ignorant

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• Our people shall be free

  Thomas Jefferson

  People

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• Peace, that glorious moment in time when everyone stops and reloads.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Moments, Moments In Time, Glorious

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• But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Differences, Principles, Politics

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Family, Heaven, Being Thankful

  Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.103

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• Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it is what I have steadfastly believed.

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  Happiness, Believe, Perfect

  Thomas Jefferson (1853). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.187

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• Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.

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  Knowledge, Eye, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1941). “The Wisdom of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Jefferson Bible, "The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth,"”

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• I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. . . . We seem not to perceive that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independent nation is to another. . . . The earth belongs always to the living generations.

  Thomas Jefferson

  4th Of July, Independent, Self

  Letter to James Madison, September 6, 1789.

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• To make us one nation as to foreign concerns, and keep us distinct in Domestic ones gives the outline of the proper division of powers between the general [national] and particular [state] governments.

  Thomas Jefferson

  4th Of July, Government, Giving

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty of the eye can be enjoyed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Beauty, Eye, Virginia

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1541, Library of America

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• I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

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  Friendship, True Friend, Wine

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.4

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• A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity that ever were written.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Daughter, Kings, Honesty

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.234, Cambridge University Press

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• No nation is drunken where wine is cheap.

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  Drinking, Wine, Alcohol

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.312

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• To every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language.

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  Perseverance, Adversity, Obstacles

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.110, Modern Library

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• Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right.

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  Running, Character, Long

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