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The Works of Thomas Jefferson: 1799-1803

Book by Thomas Jefferson · 6 quotes · Opinion, Should, Art

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The Works of Thomas Jefferson: 1799-1803 Quotes

“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”

“I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere; and less perfection in the others, with more health, virtue and freedom, would be my choice.”

“I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers & salaries merely to make partisans, & for increasing, by every device, the public debt, on the principle of its being a public blessing.”