Quote by Thomas Jefferson
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. -

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. – Thomas Jefferson

Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. – Thomas Jefferson

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Friendship
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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. – Thomas Jefferson

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Society
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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely happier for it. – Thomas Jefferson

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News
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Other Quotes from
Cowardice/Weakness
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It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life. – Proverb

I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark. – Samuel Johnson

Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare. – Queens Mother Elizabeth

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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. – Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

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Patriotism

Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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Speeches

Im a multidimensional person and thats the freedom of fashion: that youre able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever. – Emma Watson

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Freedom

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today. – Pope Paul VI

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Life