Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none. "

Thomas Jefferson

Related Quotes:

" Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. "

Thomas Jefferson

" I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely. "

Alexander Graham Bell

" Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" Richard Donner's friendship and guidance showed me that there's more to life than being an actor. "

" I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy. "

" When you start a relationship, there's part of the friendship that dies - you can never go back. "

Emily Bett Rickards

" Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. "

Jean de La Fontaine

" It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong. "

Thomas Jefferson

" We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world - but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first. "

" I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all. "

" It takes a long time to grow an old friend. "

" Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen. "

" Opposition is true friendship. "

True Friendship

" The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages. "

" As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something. "

" A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies. "

" Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. "

" An injured friend is the bitterest of foes. "

Thomas Jefferson

" A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" One hopes, of course, that a relationship grows and becomes a deep and wonderful marriage and friendship that lasts forever. But that's not always the case. "

" In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. "

Thomas Jefferson

" A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. "

" Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. "

George Washington

" China-Africa relationship has a long history and is full of vitality. Since the 1950s and 1960s, our common historical experiences have brought China and Africa together, and we have forged deep friendship in our joint struggle during which we have supported each other in times of difficulty. "

" There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. "

Thomas Jefferson

" No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. "

Thomas Jefferson

" I find that the Amazon comments often are exceptionally shrewd and insightful, so I'm not going to diss them. But you don't really have any guarantees that what you're reading wasn't written out of friendship or spite. "