Quote #52

Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.

More from Thomas Jefferson

  1. Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.
  2. [M]y religious reading has long been confined to the moral branch of religion, which is the same in all religions; while in that branch whi…
  3. Whensoever hostile aggressions...require a resort to war, we must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave e…
  4. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.
  5. The Constitution . . . meant that its coordinate branches should be checks on each other. But the opinion which gives to the judges the rig…
  6. I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in ev…
  7. Alexander von Humboldt (seeing a newspaper containing slanderous falsehoods against Jefferson on the President's desk) : Why do you not hav…
  8. Nothing was or is farther from my intentions, than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion, where I have only expressed doubt.

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