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Ages Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty,…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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,…
More Ages Quotes
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo
- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo
- As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,… — Diane Ackerman
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors. — Amy Adams
- Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. — Honore de Balzac
- Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led… — L. Frank Baum
- Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. — Henry Ward Beecher
- What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order… — Annie Besant
- It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically. — Aneurin Bevan