For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
Quote by Thomas Jefferson
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For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
- I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
- The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
- One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
- In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
- I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
- Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
- The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
- Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
- Never spend your money before you have earned it.
- Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Best Quotes
- I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.
- I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.
- The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
- I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
- The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.
- Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.
- The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
- Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.
- The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
- For visions come not to polluted eyes.