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Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#degenerates #every #government #only #people

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#fight #found #let us #like #men

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#fear #govern #i #master #may

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#bind #consider #country #distinct #each

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#disposed #evils #forms #mankind #more

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#expense #first #forehead #generals #good

What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them. ↗

— Stephan Jenkins

#create #encounter #literature #minds #moments

People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#death #looking #people #scared #something

The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#concerns #god #how #over #questions

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all. ↗

— Allen Tate

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