Friends quotes by Thomas Jefferson

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Quotes by Thomas Jefferson in Friends category:

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"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object."
"No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it...To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends."
"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."
"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine."
"Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life."
"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none."