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Centuries Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.
- 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…
- "It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to their governors the…
- I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the cupidity of their…
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- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. — Chinua Achebe
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus… — Lord Acton
- As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs… — Cleveland Abbe
- Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always… — Charles Baudelaire
- We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries. — John Berger
- For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are… — Annie Besant
- Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of… — Andrea Bocelli
- From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of… — James Buchan
- Knowing that the 'Sex and the City' chicks now rack up almost two centuries between them, why do some of us fuss… — Julie Burchill