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Birth Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.
- The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands…
- 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,…
- A government regulating itself by what is wise and just for the many, uninfluenced by the local and selfish views of the few who direct…
- Of distinction by birth or badge, [Americans] had no more idea than they had of the mode of existence in the moon or planets. They…
- There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and…
- I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.
- The foundation on which (our government is) built is the natural equality of man, the denial of every pre-eminence but that annexed to legal office,…
- I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by…
- There is...an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents.... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions…
- I hope we shall take warning from the example of England and crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already…
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- That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of… — Amelia Barr
- Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth,… — Thomas B. Macaulay
- This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at… — Gautama Buddha
- It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as… — Francis Bacon
- Personality of reincarnating as Paulo was that of his deceased sister, Emilia. She made several suicidal attempts. Finally she took cyanide and… — Ian Stevenson
- There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and… — Friedrich Nietzsche