Author: Thomas Jefferson

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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.

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.

- Thomas Jefferson

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.

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.

- Thomas Jefferson

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

- Thomas Jefferson

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

- Thomas Jefferson

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

- Thomas Jefferson

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

- Thomas Jefferson

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

- Thomas Jefferson

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

- Thomas Jefferson

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

- Thomas Jefferson

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