Tag: Thomas Jefferson
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson
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Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other.
Thomas Jefferson
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In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
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The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.
Thomas Jefferson
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I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
Thomas Jefferson
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If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
Thomas Jefferson
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If God is just, I tremble for my country.
Thomas Jefferson
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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson
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It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
Thomas Jefferson