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«The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Affection,
Happiness,
Heart
| Keywords:
affections, esteemed, pouring, pour forth
«The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Government,
Liberty
| Keywords:
gain ground, ground, The Natural, yield
«I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labour of the industrious.»
«The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
abuses, foundations, guilty, Law of the, oppressing, strongest
«The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
arms, last resort, protect, resort, resorted, resorting, resort to, retain, retaining, Right to bear arms, strongest, The Last Resort, tyranny
«If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Conquest,
Principles
| Keywords:
American, conquest, conquests, deeply, in the mind, principle, rooted
«If we believe that he (Jesus Christ) really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers father upon him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the early and the»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
biographer, biographers, countenanced, falsehoods, fathers, follies, Jesus Christ
«It is not by consolidation, or concentration of powers, but by their distribution, that good government is effected»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
concentration, concentration of power, consolidation, distribution, effected
«The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.»
«Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Government
| Keywords:
as to, attract, informed, informing, informs, notice, relied, relying, rights, so far, trusted, well-informed
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