Quote #203
There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world.
More from Thomas Jefferson
- I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past,-so good night!
- It is not by the consolidation or concentration, of powers, but by their distribution that good government is effected.
- A little revolution now and then is a good thing; the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and ty…
- As pure a son of liberty as I have ever known.
- Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself ... She has no need of force to procure entrance into the minds of men.
- No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence
- War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
- Good wine is a necessity of life for me.