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Act Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance…
- Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his…
- The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to repeal [an act…
- Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the…
- If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of…
- I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of…
- Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.
- Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.
- We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent…
- Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And never…
- We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable…
- Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the…
- My construction of the constitution is very different from that you quote. It is that each department is truly independent of the others, and has…
- Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true,…
- We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with…
- When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community. The objects of…
- In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either…
- There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.
- [An] act of the Congress of the United States... which assumes powers... not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void and…
- Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
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- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
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