"A little patience, and we shall see..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson
A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles.
More by Thomas Jefferson
“Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.”
“For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.”
“Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfil. The knowledge of character possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect.”
More on Governance
“Look, Americans will go for leadership that makes sense. Our job, you know, as public officials, is not to put our finger in the air. Our job is to listen, and then lead.”
“Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.”
“My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.”
More on Reform
“There is a great need for a new approach, new methods and new tools in teaching, man's oldest and most reactionary craft. There is great need for a rapid increase in the productivity of learning. There is, above all, great need for methods that will make the teacher effective and multiply his or her efforts and competence. Teaching is, in fact, the only traditional craft in which we have not yet fashioned the tools that make an ordinary person capable of superior performance. In this respect, teaching is far behind medicine, where the tools first became available a century or more ago.”
“The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.”
“I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are a really useful thing.”