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
- 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 blind-folded fear.
- I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
- Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
- No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will.
- He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
- My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
- In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
- In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
Best Quotes
- The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
- Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.
- Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
- There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
- Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.
- There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
- One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids' futures... actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people's everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller.
- Electricity is really just organized lightning.
- Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.
- If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.