Thomas Jefferson Quotes About History
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The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.
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History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.
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A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.
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The same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and tory belong to natural as well as to civil history. They denote the temper and constitution and mind of different individuals.
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We might have been a free and great people together.
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There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce and contain more than half our inhabitants.
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History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
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One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.
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