History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
Quote by Thomas Jefferson
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History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
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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.
- Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
- One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
- Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
- Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
- Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
- Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
- An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
- If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
- Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Best Quotes
- It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.
- My health is very good.
- It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.
- All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
- I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work.
- Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
- The President has not created any Ford constituency, unique from that of any Republican President. The one exception to this is that he does show unique strength with young voters for a Republican.
- Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.
- If a person hurts you or behaves with you in a hostile manner, Think first what did you do to make him act that way.
- My body can't put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore - my body is just not on the table that way anymore.