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Letter "T" » Thomas Jefferson Quotes
«On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Fashion
| Keywords:
current, rock, swim, The Current
«The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
free expression, legitimate| Occasions:
4th of July
«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»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Newspapers
| Keywords:
hesitate, Hesitated, hesitating, latter, newspapers, papers
«One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.»
«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»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
Banks, currencies, currency, deflation, deprive, homeless, inflation, issue, People of, wake up
«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»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Cute friendship,
Friendship
| Keywords:
arrangement, benevolent, shade, The Arrangement
«When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself public property»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
assumes, property, public property, public trust
«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»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Medicine
| Keywords:
abhor, abhorring, compelled, disbelieve, disbelieved, disbelieves, disbelieving, medicines, recover, saved
«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.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
citizen, doubtless, higher law, obligation, observance, observances, of necessity, preservation, saving, self preservation, strict, stricter, strictest
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