Thomas Jefferson

(584 votes)   Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

Thomas Jefferson

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(224 votes)   The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.

Thomas Jefferson

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(546 votes)   Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(469 votes)   Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(455 votes)   Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(441 votes)   Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

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(409 votes)   Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

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(404 votes)   Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(401 votes)   The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(372 votes)   There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(362 votes)   An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(330 votes)   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
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(317 votes)   Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(308 votes)   It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(269 votes)   The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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