#who

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#best #free #mean #militia #people

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#congress #errs #everything #fifty #hour

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

#association #confederacy #down #existed #greatest

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#errors #falsehoods #filled #knows #mind

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#behooves #case #change #circumstances #conscience

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#avoid #brought #defend #duty #endeavor

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am. ↗

— Joan Jett

#always #am #anyone #i #i am

I don't know if I get recognized necessarily, though I do get looked at a lot - but I don't know if it's because of who I am, or if people just think I look weird. ↗

— Joan Jett

#because #get #i #i am #i do

I love to engage with people who come to see us. ↗

— Joan Jett

#engage #i #i love #love #people