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 we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
- Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
- Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
- Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
- One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
- I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
- I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
- Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
- As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
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.