Thomas Jefferson Quotes

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

- Thomas Jefferson

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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. - Thomas Jefferson

Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reenactments; because a constant hold by the nation of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not to wish nor a corrupt one to be permitted to be f. - Thomas Jefferson

The first consideration in immigration is the welfare of the receiving nation. In a new government based on principles unfamiliar to the rest of the world and resting on the sentiments of the people themselves, the influx of a large number of new immigrants unaccustomed to the government of a free society could be detrimental to that society. Immigration, therefore, must be approached carefully and cautiously. - Thomas Jefferson