I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.

Quote by Thomas Jefferson

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I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true...

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true...

What has been the effect of religious coercion? To make half the world fools, and...

What has been the effect of religious coercion? To make half the world fools, and...

Delay is preferable to error.

Delay is preferable to error.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in...

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in...

Our principles are founded on the immovable basis of equal right and reason.

Our principles are founded on the immovable basis of equal right and reason.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road...

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road...

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my...

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my...

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel...

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel...

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or...

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or...

I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair...

I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair...

A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of...

A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of...

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed...

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed...

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

A republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes...

A republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes...

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Aristocracy is always cruel

Aristocracy is always cruel

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off;...

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off;...

The aristocracy is in decline in the City, and the cloth-cap professionals are in the...

The aristocracy is in decline in the City, and the cloth-cap professionals are in the...

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to...

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to...