I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Quote by Thomas Jefferson
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
- It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
- Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
- It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
- When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
- Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
- I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
- A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
- 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.
- We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
Best Quotes
- The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.
- On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
- An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.
- Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
- Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.
- You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.
- If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
- Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
- Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
- Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.