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Condition Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- this interesting subject, which, if the condition of man is to be progressively ameliorated, as we fondly hope and believe, is to be the chief…
- I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and…
- The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.
- You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my dispos[i]tion to maintain…
- An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.
- It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.
- That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition,…
- This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves where we are…
- Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good…
- So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of…
- To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for…
More Condition Quotes
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of… — Samuel Johnson
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse… — Mikhail Bakunin
- What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of… — Roland Barthes
- I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful;… — Samuel Johnson
- You've got to keep yourself in prime physical condition, because fatigue makes cowards of us all. — Vince Lombardi
- For me, comedy is a day-to-day report on the human condition. It's what's happening right now. I get maybe 20 minutes of… — Elayne Boosler