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- Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object.
- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Mr. Dumas, March 24, 1793
- Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
- I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
- A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
- Thomas Jefferson, Letter, 1810
- It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
- Thomas Jefferson, Letters to Benjamin Rush, April 21, 1803
- Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
- Thomas Jefferson, Resolutions, 1803
- I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
- Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791
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