If God is just, I tremble for my country.
Quote by Thomas Jefferson
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If God is just, I tremble for my country.
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
- When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
- The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
- I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
- It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
- 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.
- The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
- I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
- Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
- The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
- Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Best Quotes
- The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
- The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
- The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.
- In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
- Scalded cats fear even cold water.
- I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
- It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
- Human nature is not of itself vicious.
- Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
- What's wrong with extreme dieting and hard-core fitness plans is that they don't take into account the rest of your life.