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 have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.
- I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
- To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
- 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?
- I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just that his justice cannot sleep forever.
- Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
- Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
- The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
- The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
- He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Best Quotes
- I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me.
- A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
- I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
- My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?
- What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.
- If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
- A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
- Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
- Art is the proper task of life.
- The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.