#there

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#army #disciplined #dispense #important #keep

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#expense #first #forehead #generals #good

But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end. ↗

— John Jewel

#continue #end #ever #finger #fountain

The monetary policy of the United States has a major impact on global liquidity and capital flows and therefore, the liquidity of the U.S. dollar should be kept at a reasonable and stable level. ↗

— Hu Jintao

#dollar #flows #global #impact #kept

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#else #find #getting #having #head

Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#condition #dead #defined #god #modernism

The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#interests #life #majority #minority #necessarily

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#angry #attacks #belief #confidence #degree

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#been #care #endeavors #every #every man

Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#being there #makes #more #neighbor #noisy