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«I believe that justice is instinct and innate; the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Justice
| Keywords:
innate, moral sense, sense of hearing, the threat of, threat
«In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.»
«Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.»
«Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
antagonist, antagonists, conflict, debate, disarmed, errors, human error, interposition, prevail, sufficient, weapons
«If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Children
| Keywords:
correction, corrections, dearer, untaught
«The foundation on which all our constitution are built is the natural equality of man»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
constitution, equality, foundation, The Foundation, The Natural
«In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
artificial, covers, equivalent, good-humored, good humor, habitual, in truth, nearly, politeness, rendering, substitute, The Natural
«To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Freedom
| Keywords:
devote, freedom of the press, human mind, improvement, martyrdom, preserve, press, proceed, the press
«We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
ears, in one ear, justice, preservation, safely, scale, scaled, scaling, self preservation, The Wolf, wolf
«The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Citizenship,
Equality,
Principles
| Keywords:
citizens, equality, republic
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