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Common Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.
- preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.
- the field of knolege is the common property of all mankind
- No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage
- I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.
- Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as…
- The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.
- The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More…
- Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . .…
- It is (our) duty . . . to pay especial attention to the principles of government which shall be inculcated therein (at the University), and…
- By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of…
- It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed by those who…
- I learn with great concern that [one] portion of our frontier so interesting, so important, and so exposed, should be so entirely unprovided with common…
- If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.
- Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to…
- Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the…
- All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn…
- But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire…
- I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.
- Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.
More Common Quotes
- The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level… — Frederick Lenz
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- Water always seeks the easiest path, the common level of life. — Frederick Lenz
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson
- She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths… — Sri Aurobindo
- It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of… — Samuel Johnson
- I think we can provide common-sense approaches to the issue of illegal guns that are ending up on the streets. We can… — Barack Obama
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all… — Wystan Hugh Auden