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Thomas Jefferson54 quotes
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. — Thomas Jefferson · 1787Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. — Thomas Jefferson · 1785The boisterous sea of liberty indeed is never without a wave. — Thomas Jefferson · 1820The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. — Thomas Jefferson · 1787We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a feather-bed. — Thomas Jefferson · 1790What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment... Inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose. — Thomas Jefferson · 1786All 54 quotes →