One man with courage is a majority.
Quote by Thomas Jefferson
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One man with courage is a majority.
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
- For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
- Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
- Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
- It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
- Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
- I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
- He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- 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 republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
- Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
Best Quotes
- It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating, but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life.
- No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
- It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
- To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
- When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'
- I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
- People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.
- Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
- Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
- I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.