I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Quote by Thomas Jefferson

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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 democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing...

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing...

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...

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.

I believe that justice is instinct and innate; the moral sense is as much a...

I believe that justice is instinct and innate; the moral sense is as much a...

Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from truth who believes nothing,...

Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from truth who believes nothing,...

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.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power...

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power...

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like...

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like...

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale...

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale...

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of...

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of...

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a...

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a...

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a...

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a...