Author Topic: ~ Thomas Jefferson Quotes ~ (Read 6230 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #60 on:** November 06, 2015, 05:23:34 PM »

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable too to set a good example than to follow a bad one.

MysteRy · « **Reply #61 on:** November 06, 2015, 05:24:01 PM »

No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame its parts their functions and actions.

MysteRy · « **Reply #62 on:** November 06, 2015, 05:24:29 PM »

I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.

MysteRy · « **Reply #63 on:** November 06, 2015, 05:24:55 PM »

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization it expects what never was and never will be.

MysteRy · « **Reply #64 on:** November 06, 2015, 05:25:24 PM »

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans and must be that of every free state.

MysteRy · « **Reply #65 on:** November 06, 2015, 05:25:48 PM »

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

MysteRy · « **Reply #66 on:** November 06, 2015, 05:26:14 PM »

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

MysteRy · « **Reply #67 on:** November 06, 2015, 05:26:49 PM »

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

MysteRy · « **Reply #68 on:** November 06, 2015, 05:27:13 PM »

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

MysteRy · « **Reply #69 on:** November 06, 2015, 05:27:34 PM »

Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle.

MysteRy · « **Reply #70 on:** November 07, 2015, 06:52:50 PM »

Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

MysteRy · « **Reply #71 on:** November 07, 2015, 06:53:16 PM »

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

MysteRy · « **Reply #72 on:** November 07, 2015, 06:53:45 PM »

In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.

MysteRy · « **Reply #73 on:** November 07, 2015, 06:54:10 PM »

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

MysteRy · « **Reply #74 on:** November 07, 2015, 06:54:36 PM »

The sword of the law should never fall but on those whose guilt is so apparent as to be pronounced by their friends as well as foes.

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