WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sat, 02 May 2026 22:34:26 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg conditions – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Jefferson, Thomas -- Letter (1817-06-14) to François de Marbois https://wist.info/jefferson-thomas/12927/ https://wist.info/jefferson-thomas/12927/#respond Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:32:08 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=12927 Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them.


Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American political philosopher, polymath, statesman, US President (1801-09)
Letter (1817-06-14) to François de Marbois
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Hyman Rickover (1900-1986) Polish-American naval engineer, admiral [b. Chaim Gdala Rykower]
Speech (1954-03-16), “Administering a Large Military Development Project,” US Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
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