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| Jefferson Quotes | No. | Quotation | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, count a hundred. | Anger |
| 2 | How much have cost us the evils that never happened! | Anxiety |
| 3 | I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. | Past |
| 4 | I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me. | Worry |
| 5 | A monied aristocracy in our country ... has already set the government at defiance. | Aristocracy |
| 6 | All authority belongs to the people. | Authority |
| 7 | I sincerely believe. . . that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. | Banking |
| 8 | I have always said, I always will say, that the studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands. | Bible |
| 9 | But it is not by the consolidation, or concentration, of powers, but by their distribution that good government is effected. | Bureaucracy |
| 10 | I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too. | Censorship |
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