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«Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Citizenship
| Keywords:
citizen, free state, Greeks, Romans, soldier, the Greeks, This Was
«Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
begets, begot, dependence, designs, fit, germ, germs, prepares, subservience, suffocate, suffocated, suffocates, suffocating, The Germ, tools, venality
«My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
abolition, disposition, improving, lessen, lessened, lessening, lessens, morals, practicable, views
«Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried»
«My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind»
«An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens»
«Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.»
«I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.»
«An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second»
«The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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boisterous, commerce, degrading, despotism, imitate, perpetual, submissions, unremitting
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