Quote #26
Let what will be said or done, preserve your sang-froid immovably, and to every obstacle, oppose patience, perseverance, and soothing language.
More from Thomas Jefferson
- I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.
- Delay is preferable to error.
- I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitut…
- We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.
- We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
- The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
- The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
- It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same …