195 Quotations by Thomas Jefferson
- 61. I never told my religion nor scrutinize that of another. I never attempted to make a convert nor wis ...
- 62. I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors ...
- 63. I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me.
- 64. I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the ...
- 65. I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that th ...
- 66. I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern
- 67. I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
- 68. I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending t ...
- 69. I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
- 70. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try ...
- 71. If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will ...
- 72. If the condition of man is to be progressively ameliorated .... Education is to be the chief instrum ...
- 73. If the happiness of the mass of mankind can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and th ...
- 74. If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is tha ...
- 75. If we can prevent the Government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking ...
- 76. Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he ...
- 77. In matter of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
- 78. In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- 79. In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fi ...
- 80. In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by renderi ...
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