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Action Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- 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…
- Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect,…
- To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to…
- The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.
- No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may…
- Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong…
- [T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own…
- 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…
- Our tenet ever was . . . that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically…
- If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an…
- History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future. . . . It will qualify them as…
- It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
- 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…
- It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
- If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
- Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is…
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- Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. — Dalai Lama