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«Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
alliance, follies, miseries, misfortunes, volunteers
«When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the rest have a natural right to compel them to obedience»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Obedience
| Keywords:
American union, compel, confederation, Natural right, natural state, obedience, refuses
«It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
abandoned, benefits, deprive, prostitution, suppression, suppressions, the press
«I sincerely. believe. in the general existence of moral instinct. I think it the brightest gem with which the human character is studded, and the want of it as more degrading than the most hideous of the bodily deformities.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
bodily, brightest, deformities, deformity, degrading, gem, hideous, moral character, sincerely, stud, studded, studs, The General
«Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Motherhood
| Keywords:
keystone, matrimonial, motherhood
«A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.»
«Sound principles will not justify our taxing the industry of our fellow citizens to accumulate treasure for wars to happen we know not when, and which might not perhaps happen but from the temptations offered by that treasure»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
accumulate, justify, offered, taxing, temptations, The Industry, The Temptations
«When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred»
«Tranquility is the old man's milk»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Age,
Tranquility
| Keywords:
The old man, tranquility
«Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Liberty
| Keywords:
Born Free, personal liberty
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