Quote by Thomas Jefferson
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us. - Thomas

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us. – Thomas Jefferson

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The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed. – Thomas Jefferson

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power
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. – Thomas Jefferson

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Happiness
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I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. – Thomas Jefferson

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Banks / Banking
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Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule. – Franz Grillparzer

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Ridicule

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble. – Sir Walter Scott

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Ridicule

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. – Thomas Szasz

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Ridicule

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Ridicule

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All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: History

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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? – Bette Davis

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Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear. – Helen Dunmore

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