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DENISE BOTTCHER The platform we had in Dallas, the 1984 Republican platform, all the ideas we supported there - from...
TRENT LOTT The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the di...
GRETA GARBO Of course, Mississippi participates in federal matching programs for everything from preserving the ...
RONNIE MUSGROVE I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS We want this to be financially acceptable to Jefferson City.
DAVID SEAMON Well, let me tell you something; I knew Thomas Jefferson. He was a friend of mine and Governor. . . ...
RONALD REAGAN The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It i...
OSHO Was it so much to ask just to be left alone?
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN If you pity his loneliness, be his company...
PHILIP T. M. To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.
ANTHONY BURGESS It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don&#...
DIRK BENEDICT To be honest, I joined Facebook as an experiment. I accepted all invitations just to see how many pe...
VINT CERF If you're alone, it's okay! at least you're not fake.
MAYANK KUMAR LOUTERIYA Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage ...
THOMAS CARLYLE Let me alone, and go in search of someone else..
ALI IBN ABI TALIB When all are talking, no one is probably listening; but if no one is speaking then perhaps all are o...
ANUJ SOMANY We understand it still that there is no easy road to freedom. We know it well that none of us acting...
NELSON MANDELA Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN We all want to be revered for our obsession. Most are not revered because they do not know what they...
JAMES BRADLEY SINCLAIR Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish: / That men ...
BIBLE Leave me alone", is not a good news! "Let's be together" is not a bad news. We were made to be each ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Give sometimes everything will be alright.
JENIL KANANI All's well that carries on well
AMIT ABRAHAM The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.
ERWIN N. GRISWOLD Jefferson Parish as we knew it is gone forever.
JEFFERSON PARISH He will be in competition with Troy Davis and right now, Troy Davis is our starting tailback,
GREG MARSHALL When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be...
JOHN OWEN We couldn't even see the hole, let alone try to putt,
JACK NICKLAUS ...probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those t...
JOHN F. KENNEDY We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We a...
BARTON SEAVER It is better not to sit on the grass after thirty when sprawling at all is difficult, let alone spra...
ELIZABETH BIBESCO We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you...
RAY BRADBURY A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL The personal desolation Christ is experiencing on the cross is what you and I should be experiencing...
C.J. MAHANEY An Error is like Salt and A 'Sincere' Apology is like Water and a ''Repeated Same Error'' is like a ...
ANUROOP TYAGI We did a great job in team defense and we shut down Vince. Richard Jefferson still had a big game, K...
DEVIN BROWN Be bold, you just have to ask
SOTONYE ANGA We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse
ANI DIFRANCO What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
FERDINAND MARCOS It was going to be Pierce or Davis. It's not like we didn't talk about both of them. We lost the gam...
MIKE FRATELLO They played much better today all around. We still need to be more consistent in all three phases of...
GREG SHIVERS All they want to do is be left alone, sun and swim. At this point, all we have is crocodiles being c...
OFFICER JORGE PINO (Davis) is a character kid, a tough kid. You don't want to over-coach a kid like that. You just let ...
KURT PAULY And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.
L.M. MONTGOMERY The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do wit...
GERMANY KENT Love is purpose and we all have love so we all have a purpose
PARKER LOUIS SEELY Back in the days of Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis, beauty wasn't the be-all and end-all it is...
MARCIA GAY HARDEN What is done let us leave alone.
TERENCE All we wanted was to be heard, to be able to ask if she cheated.
ALAN CAYETANO All we wanted was to be heard, to be able to ask if she cheated.
ALAN PETER CAYETANO We've supported reasonable and technologically feasible increases. All we ask is to be part of the p...
JASON VINES The born point of all martial arts can be summarized in one simple principle: there is always going ...
JAIRO FERNáNDEZ If we {Federalists] must have an enemy at the head of government, let it be one whom we can oppose, ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON When we make judgements we're inevitably acting on limited knowledge, isn't it best to ask if we see...
JAY WOODMAN To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD I have administered other grants but each grant is different so we are going to take a trip up to Je...
BRUCE HARRILL We've just got to be careful - with all sports, let alone cricket - I think there's so much ...
SHANE WARNE Let them ask who you are but do not let others dictate who you should be.
HOCKSON FLOIN I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the differe...
GRETA GARBO It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set a...
JEAN-LUC GODARD We looked at some film and saw their forwards come up high. I saw Katy all alone and she let it rip.
LAUREN KELLIN That would be just what Davis needs. There is nothing Gray Davis would like more than to be able to ...
DAN SCHNUR If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a ...
ORLANDO BLOOM If someone don’t want you, then it’s not the time to blame them, but it’s the time to think ab...
DR. ARUN S SON And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.
CHARLES EVERS The key to a good rib is for us to leave them alone and let the hickory and the ribs do all the work...
JEFF GOLDSTEIN How wild it was, to let it be.
T. S. ELIOT Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask fo...
ZIAD K. ABDELNOUR Let us ask ourselves; What kind of people do we think we are?
RONALD REAGAN Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a m...
ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS We said that the way we were going to win this game is that we were going to defend first. If we put...
JAMES BUSH It is to such men as Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson and Jackson and Franklin, all most lowly born, th...
JOSEPH PULITZER We are too weak to know the purpose of our duty let alone our life.
EPHDAN To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
SUZANNE GORDON The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,...
CRAIG GROESCHEL All religious and spiritual practices lead to one deep realisation: We Are One. All is One.
ANITA B. SULSER Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone thrive. Capacity, intere...
TIMOTHY FERRISS If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
ANATOLE FRANCE Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alon...
WAYNE DYER If we could have the ability to change the past and right our wrongs would it make us learn from any...
GARY F EVANS... To be in a time of technological change and advancement is an awesome thought indeed as long as it i...
GARY F EVANS... We were not able to handle the homeless we had before the storm, let alone 5,000 more people.
KATHERINE MARTIN Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT All alone!Whether you like it or not,alone is something you'll be quite a lot
DR. SEUSS All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!
DR. SEUSS I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been ...
JOHN F. KENNEDY I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Vince is not always going to be healthy, so (Jefferson) did a great job of picking it up.
JASON KIDD We are working to become a downtown like Port Jefferson or Northport.
JANE BONNER

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JEFFERSON DAVIS Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
JEFFERSON DAVIS If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.
JEFFERSON DAVIS Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusio...
JEFFERSON DAVIS I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and b...
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JEFFERSON DAVIS A people morally and intellectually equal to self-government must also be equal in self-defence.
JEFFERSON DAVIS To increase the power, develop the resources and promote the happiness of a Confederacy, it is requi...
JEFFERSON DAVIS Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty.
JEFFERSON DAVIS [Our situation] illustrates the American idea that governments rest on the consent of the governed, ...
JEFFERSON DAVIS To one who loves his country in all its parts, it is natural to rejoice in whatever contributes to t...
JEFFERSON DAVIS It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States sho...
JEFFERSON DAVIS Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctioned by its just...
JEFFERSON DAVIS An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be sa...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
THOMAS JEFFERSON We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
THOMAS JEFFERSON There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
THOMAS JEFFERSON When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Euro...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
THOMAS JEFFERSON For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their be...
THOMAS JEFFERSON If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should hav...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
THOMAS JEFFERSON One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our o...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results...
THOMAS JEFFERSON No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
THOMAS JEFFERSON It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by who...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor...
THOMAS JEFFERSON To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful an...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
THOMAS JEFFERSON No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
THOMAS JEFFERSON No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON He who knows best knows how little he knows.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have,...
THOMAS JEFFERSON To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by educat...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
THOMAS JEFFERSON My mind is stuffed with quotes. Lines, couplets, paragraphs, stanzas; Bessie Smith, Stevie Smith, Ti...
MARGO JEFFERSON It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noi...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working unde...
THOMAS JEFFERSON When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The second office of this government is honorable & easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the stre...
THOMAS JEFFERSON A sense of this necessity, and a submission to it, is to me a new and consolatory proof that whereve...
THOMAS JEFFERSON With earnest prayers to all my friends to cherish mutual good will, to promote harmony and conciliat...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The question Whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been sta...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest mode...
THOMAS JEFFERSON If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let...
THOMAS JEFFERSON But let me beseech you, Sir, not to let this letter get into a newspaper. Tranquillity, at my age, i...
THOMAS JEFFERSON If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular p...
THOMAS JEFFERSON A Decalogue of Canons for observation in practical life. 1. Never put off till to-morrow what you ca...
THOMAS JEFFERSON the giver of life, who gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.
THOMAS JEFFERSON God who gave us life gave us liberty. 1 Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The bank mania is one of the most threatening of these imitations. It is raising up a monied aristoc...
THOMAS JEFFERSON A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but i...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Architecture worth great attention. As we double our numbers every 20 years we must double our house...
THOMAS JEFFERSON As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn fro...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Jefferson was against any needless official apparel, but if the gown was to carry, he said: For Heav...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The firmness with which the people have withstood the late abuses of the press, the discernment they...
THOMAS JEFFERSON At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helples...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON People can punch me in the shoulder and it still probably wouldn't bother me as much as raising my a...
AISHA JEFFERSON I just try to get after everything the best way I can. A lot of times I rebound with one arm or stea...
AISHA JEFFERSON She's definitely a great leader. I call her more a player/coach. She's been through it all, she has ...
AISHA JEFFERSON She's 6 feet 7, and that's a big presence to have in the middle. But we can't back down and can't be...
AISHA JEFFERSON We definitely treated this game with a sense of urgency. We recognized the mismatch. Lindsay and Liz...
AISHA JEFFERSON My teammates recognized the mismatch I was in and they kept going to me. That's what got me my point...
AISHA JEFFERSON It wasn't a perfect win, but we came through at the end. We needed a lot of hustle plays and our pre...
AISHA JEFFERSON We just had to keep attacking. We were very upset about our loss at Minnesota and really had somethi...
AISHA JEFFERSON I owe it to myself, to the fans and to the Celtics and the coaches to come back next year ready to p...
AL JEFFERSON It was tiring. I had a couple dunks and a lot of jumpers, jump hooks and free throws. It was crazy.
AL JEFFERSON Like Doc said, the trade will clear out a lot of negative stuff in the locker room without Mark Blou...
AL JEFFERSON This was fun because at one point Doc wasn't comfortable with us out there together.
AL JEFFERSON A lot of people compare me to Moses Malone. Somebody actually sent me a DVD of him. I didn't get a c...
AL JEFFERSON To draw around the whole nation the strength of the General Government, as a barrier against foreign...
THOMAS JEFFERSON We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by th...
THOMAS JEFFERSON We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independant...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the publi...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I, however, place economy among the first and most important of republican virtues, and public debt ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our constitution. I would be willing to depe...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The maxim of buying nothing without the money in our pocket to pay for it, would make of our country...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate wo...
THOMAS JEFFERSON And lastly, let us provide in our constitution for its revision at stated periods.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most indepe...
THOMAS JEFFERSON You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war....
THOMAS JEFFERSON The character of our coasts, remarkable in considerable parts of it for admitting no vessels of size...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I thought the work would be very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man;...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massach...
THOMAS JEFFERSON In truth, the abuses of monarchy had so much filled all the space of political contemplation, that w...
THOMAS JEFFERSON But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON One half of our brethren who fight and pay taxes, are excluded, like Helots, from the rights of repr...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Were our State a pure democracy, in which all its inhabitants should meet together to transact all t...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is...
THOMAS JEFFERSON With your talents and industry, with science, and that stedfast honesty which eternally pursues righ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have past at home in the bosom of my famil...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Perfect happiness I believe was never intended by the deity to be the lot of any one of his creature...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on th...
THOMAS JEFFERSON We are endeavoring, too, to reduce the government to the practice of a rigorous economy, to avoid bu...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projec...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. are the sole objects of all legit...
THOMAS JEFFERSON If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem an...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Were we directed from Washington when to sow, & when to reap, we should soon want bread.
THOMAS JEFFERSON If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricul...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I confess I have the same fears for our South American brethren; the qualifications for self-governm...
THOMAS JEFFERSON To preserve the freedom of the human mind and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disb...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or bur...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Peace, commerce, and honest friendship, with all nationsentangling alliances with none.
THOMAS JEFFERSON It is, therefore, with the sincerest pleasure I have observed on the part of the British government ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The desire to preserve our country from the calamities and ravages of war, by cultivating a disposit...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any ar...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Here was buried Thomas Jefferson author of the Declaration of American Independence of the Statute o...
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THOMAS JEFFERSON I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.
THOMAS JEFFERSON It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON There are two sides to every question, because, when there are no longer two sides it ceases to be a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to admit it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Power is not alluring to pure minds
THOMAS JEFFERSON I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none
THOMAS JEFFERSON For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.
THOMAS JEFFERSON It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
THOMAS JEFFERSON It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquillity and occupation which give happiness.
THOMAS JEFFERSON When the moral sense is wanting, we endeavor to supply the defect by education, by appeals to reason...
THOMAS JEFFERSON We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.
JOSEPH JEFFERSON Conscience is the chamber of justice.
THOMAS JEFFERSON That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves.
THOMAS JEFFERSON ...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feeling...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil s...
THOMAS JEFFERSON And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in t...
THOMAS JEFFERSON We refuse to turn off our computers, turn off our phone, log off Facebook, and just sit in silence, ...
JEFFERSON BETHKE There exists indeed an opposition to it [building of UVA, Jefferson's secular college] by the...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I agree with yours of the 22d that a professorship of Theology should have no place in our instit...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from th...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to p...
THOMAS JEFFERSON If you want something you've never had
You must be willing to do something you've never done.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good gener...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of...
THOMAS JEFFERSON A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you w...
THOMAS JEFFERSON To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbeliev...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work Plato's R...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he...
THOMAS JEFFERSON In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by renderi...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending t...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nati...
THOMAS JEFFERSON It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.
THOMAS JEFFERSON