Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Quote by Thomas Jefferson
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
- Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
- Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
- 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.
- My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
- Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
- The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
- Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
- A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
- Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
- Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
Best Quotes
- The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.
- I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.
- To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
- Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
- Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
- Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
- Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
- The giving of love is an education in itself.