"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them."
― Thomas Jefferson
Topic(s):
Hope
More From Thomas Jefferson
- "Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."
- "If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy."
- "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government."
More In Hope
- "I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film’s abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y’know, that’s great. But I hope it involves an audience."― Paul Thomas Anderson
- "When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they’ll remember and be kind to someone else. And it’ll become like a wildfire."― Whoopi Goldberg
- "An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength."― Adam Schiff