Thomas Jefferson Philosophical Quotes — Page 35

Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

Philosophical

“I don't want them to kill no hog . . . . I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two feet.”

Men Two Feet

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

Philosophical

“It look like the lord just work for wite folks cause ever sens i wasn nothin but a litle boy i been on my on haulin water to the fiel on that ol water cart wit all them dime bukets an that dipper just hittin an old dorthy just trottin and trottin an me up their hittin her wit that rope.”

Boys Water Dying

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Philosophical

“I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance of it shall never be a crime in my view, nor bring injury on the individual. I never will by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance. I never had an opinion in politics or religion which I was afraid to own; a reserve on these subjects might have procured me more esteem from some people, but less from myself.”

People Religious Views

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Philosophical

“History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.”

Past Judging History

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Philosophical

“State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.”

Morality Ethics Intelligence

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Philosophical

“They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.”

People War Peace

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Philosophical

“among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of their originals ... I think myself more indebted to my father for this, than for all the other luxuries his cares and affections have placed within my reach.”

Father Reading Educational

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Philosophical

“Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother & an instructor.”

Mother Educational Drawing

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Philosophical

“A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so will it be the latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest.”

Education Citizens Permit

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Philosophical

“this interesting subject, which, if the condition of man is to be progressively ameliorated, as we fondly hope and believe, is to be the chief instrument in effecting it.”

Men Believe Educational

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Philosophical

“for the present we may groupe the sciences into Professorships as follows, subject however to be changed according to the qualifications of the persons we may be able to engage.”

May Able Educational

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Philosophical

“The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.”

Science Air Ocean

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Thomas Jefferson — Philosophical Quotes

Thomas Jefferson Quotes