My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Quote by Thomas Jefferson
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My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
- I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
- As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
- It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
- 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.
- 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.
- If God is just, I tremble for my country.
- 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, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
- I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.
- In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.
- When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
- I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.
- Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies.
- In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
- I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.
- Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
- To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
- Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.