More from Thomas Jefferson

  1. Let what will be said or done, preserve your sang-froid immovably, and to every obstacle, oppose patience, perseverance, and soothing langu…
  2. We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.
  3. I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.
  4. The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
  5. I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitut…
  6. 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 …
  7. We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
  8. A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, res…

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