Tag: Thomas Jefferson
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A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
Thomas Jefferson
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No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
Thomas Jefferson
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Thomas Jefferson
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I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
Thomas Jefferson
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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas Jefferson
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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Thomas Jefferson
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Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Thomas Jefferson
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For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
Thomas Jefferson