"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."
― Thomas Jefferson
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Men
More From Thomas Jefferson
- "Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted."
- "A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities."
- "If God is just, I tremble for my country."
More In Men
- "There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men."― Epicurus
- "Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now."― Margaret Atwood
- "Men do not fail; they give up trying."― Elihu Root