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Become Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the…
- Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother…
- female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them…
- I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.
- In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object.
- Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the…
- I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there…
- I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means…
- I am entirely persuaded that the agitations of the public mind advance its powers, and that at every vibration between the points of liberty and…
- A noiseless course, not meddling with the affairs of others, unattractive of notice, is a mark that society is going on in happiness. If we…
- 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…
- If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object; but if we break into squads, everyone pursuing the path…
- He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter of science. For…
- [The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts shall…
- I do verily believe that if the principle were to prevail of a common law being in force in the United States (which principle possesses…
- ...is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? ...the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt,…
- France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties…
- The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless... From the conclusion of this war we shall…
- I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and…
- If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become…
More Become Quotes
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- We tend to become what the most important person in our life thinks we will become. Think the best, believe the best,… — John C. Maxwell
- It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis… — Andre Agassi
- Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out… — C.S. Lewis
- If you become more sensitive to beauty, to poetry, that means your love has blossomed. And all the energy that has been… — Rajneesh