Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Composition

• I see now our fireside formed into a groupe, no one member of which has a fibre in their composition which can ever produce any jarring or jealousies among us. No irregular passions, no dangerous bias, which may render problematical the future fortunes and happiness of our descendants.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, Passion, May

  Thomas Jefferson, Barbara B. Oberg (1950). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 29: 1 March 1796 to 31 December 1797”, p.424, Princeton University Press

• A schism has taken place among the chemists. A particular set of them in France have undertaken to remodel all the terms of the science, and to give every substance a new name, the composition, and especially the termination of which, shall define the relation in which it stands to other substances of the same family.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Taken, Science, Names

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.454

• Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object: the public good; but they differ essentially in what they deem the means of promoting that good. One side believes it best done by one composition of the governing powers, the other by a different one. One fears most the ignorance of the people; the other the selfishness of rulers independent of them. Which is right, time and experience will prove.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Party, Believe, Ignorance

  B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). “Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait”, p.386

• Podemos decir con verdad y sentido, que los gobiernos son más o menos republicanos, según tengan más o menos del elemento de elección y control popular en su composición; y creyendo como creo, que la masa de los ciudadanos es el depositario más seguro de sus propios derechos y especialmente que los males que fluyen de las duperies del pueblo son menos perjudiciales que los del egoísmo de sus agentes, soy amigo de aquella composición de gobierno que tiene en ella la mayor parte de este ingrediente.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Creer, Derechos, Gobierno

  Thomas Jefferson H. A. Washington (2011). "Los escritos de Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private", p.608, Cambridge University Press

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