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Letter "T" » Thomas Jefferson Quotes
«Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state.»
«All men are created equal.»
«I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but the people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take power from them, but to inform them by education.»
«A government big enough to supply you with everything you need is a government big enough to take away everything that you have.... The course of history shows that as the government grows, liberty decreases.»
«The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty. . . . Students' perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.»
«God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?»
«On every question of Construction (of the Constitution) lets us carry our-selves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.»
«The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.»
«It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power [the judiciary] is independent of the nation.»
«One single object...[will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.»
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