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Quote DB :: Authors :: Thomas Jefferson :: View Quote View Quote "It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Thomas Jefferson Listed in: America Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 3.4  Rate Quote 5 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Thomas Jefferson "I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one." "I never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man." "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." "Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear." Top 5 quotes from America "The government at Washington does live. It lives in the pages of our Constitution and in the hearts of our citizens, and there it will always be safe." "If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." "On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does." "There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one." "In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them."

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