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Age Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country
- This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere…
- To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are…
- Tranquility is the old man's milk.
- In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in…
- Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses; and…
- What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty,…
- I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.
- The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at…
- Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded,…
- But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that…
- It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has been held in…
- Most men die at age 25, but aren't buried until 70.
- Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it into sects of…
- If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New Testament]father upon him,…
- In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars…
- My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
- In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses…
- Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the…
More Age Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and… — Francis Bacon
- The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the… — James Buchan
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani