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Assuming Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results…
- Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
- Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government.
- The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.
- May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to…
- When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and…
- I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would…
- History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future. . . . It will qualify them as…
- [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…
- When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
- The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.
More Assuming Quotes
- You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think. — J. J. Abrams
- Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if… — Marcus Aurelius
- Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is… — Urie Bronfenbrenner
- All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use… — Theodore Bikel
- Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
- When it comes to personnel issues, I act professionally and respectful of former employees. I just assume that's a two-way street. It's… — Michele Bachmann
- Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will… — Piers Anthony
- I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip… — John Updike