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Branches Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- we defer therefore till this time twelve month to avail ourselves of the instruction of that place, and particularly of your kindness in the two…
- I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day,…
- Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands…
- To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which…
- A single good government becomes... a blessing to the whole earth, its welcome to the oppressed restraining within certain limits the measure of their oppressions.…
- [T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own…
- We shall divert through our own Country a branch of commerce which the European States have thought worthy of the most important struggles and sacrifices,…
- The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a subject of consideration…
- I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the usurpation of all…
- [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…
- Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
More Branches Quotes
- To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed,… — Charles Babbage
- The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no… — Michele Bachmann
- Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do… — Jello Biafra
- The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was… — Julian Bond
- Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a… — Anthony Burgess
- The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law. — George W. Bush
- You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be… — Rosalynn Carter
- When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of… — Marc Chagall