Author Topic: ~ Thomas Jefferson Quotes ~ (Read 6254 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #45 on:** November 06, 2015, 05:16:48 PM »

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.

MysteRy · « **Reply #46 on:** November 06, 2015, 05:17:18 PM »

Peace commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

MysteRy · « **Reply #47 on:** November 06, 2015, 05:17:46 PM »

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

MysteRy · « **Reply #48 on:** November 06, 2015, 05:18:11 PM »

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

MysteRy · « **Reply #49 on:** November 06, 2015, 05:18:39 PM »

That government is best which governs the least because its people discipline themselves.

MysteRy · « **Reply #50 on:** November 06, 2015, 05:19:03 PM »

I never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man.

MysteRy · « **Reply #51 on:** November 06, 2015, 05:19:30 PM »

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.

MysteRy · « **Reply #52 on:** November 06, 2015, 05:19:55 PM »

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just that His justice cannot sleep forever.

MysteRy · « **Reply #53 on:** November 06, 2015, 05:20:22 PM »

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

MysteRy · « **Reply #54 on:** November 06, 2015, 05:20:48 PM »

A republican government is slow to move yet when once in motion its momentum becomes irresistible.

MysteRy · « **Reply #55 on:** November 06, 2015, 05:21:18 PM »

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

MysteRy · « **Reply #56 on:** November 06, 2015, 05:21:45 PM »

I do not take a single newspaper nor read one a month and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

MysteRy · « **Reply #57 on:** November 06, 2015, 05:22:11 PM »

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

MysteRy · « **Reply #58 on:** November 06, 2015, 05:22:36 PM »

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

MysteRy · « **Reply #59 on:** November 06, 2015, 05:23:07 PM »

I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

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