Thomas Jefferson Inaugural Quotes & Sayings

If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
[First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801] — Thomas Jefferson

I've been nominated for Academy Awards, I know what I'm doing. — John Singleton

The sea answers only to the sea. — Marty Rubin

In Jefferson's mind great historical leaps forward were almost always the product of a purging, which freed societies from the accumulated debris of the past and thereby allowed the previously obstructed natural forces to flow forward into the future. Simplicity and austerity, not equality or individualism, were the messages of his inaugural march. It was a minimalist statement about a purging of excess and a recovery of essence. — Joseph J. Ellis

Photography is the mirror, more faithful than any actual mirror, in which we witness at every age, our own aging. The actual mirror accompanies us through time, thoughtfully and treacherously; it changes with us, so that we appear not to change. — Christian Metz

Man cannot always think of matter, however pleasurable it may be. — Swami Vivekananda

Intelligent? Kind? — Nicholas Sparks

A group of women who valued motherhood, but valued it on their own timetable, began to make a new claim, one that had never surfaced in the abortion debate before this, that abortion was a woman's right. Most significantly, they argued that this right to abortion was essential to their right to equality
the right to be treated as individuals rather than as potential mothers. — Kristin Luker

This is a Pandora's box, for endless litigation, for division in society setting one group against another, and we must for that reason, for community cohesion, resist this bill. — Stewart Jackson

Why does that obstinate little voice in our heads torment us so?' he said, looking round the table. 'Could it be because it reminds us that we are alive, of our mortality, of our individual souls - which, after all, we are too afraid to surrender but yet make us feel more miserable than any other thing? But isn't it also pain that often makes us most aware of self? — Donna Tartt

She wanted to say "Don't leave me," but she couldn't do it, not again. She was so tired of begging people to love her. Besides, — Kristin Hannah

We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans. — Thomas Jefferson

Since humans first huddled around campfires, stories have been told of wild horses with wind in their manes, fire in their eyes and freedom in their hearts. Those horses eluded capture, and scorned the comforts of civilization. Americans have insisted they want their wild horses to live that way, forever. — Terri Farley

There he was, just as she saw him: the shadow of someone she had never met. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The earth becomes heaven when you release your fear. The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human. — Pablo Casals

I'm acting like someone who is starting to realize who he is and what he can do. — Pittacus Lore

why do I sleep? Because I dream, and that is where I hear the best stories and find the hidden destinations of life. — Lori Kay