The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
Quote by Thomas Jefferson
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The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
- 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.
- 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.
- The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
- There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
- It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
- Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
- 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.
- If God is just, I tremble for my country.
- One man with courage is a majority.
- He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Best Quotes
- To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
- My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
- The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.
- What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.
- Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.
- To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
- The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
- To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.
- The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.