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Consider Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a…
- I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results…
- I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.
- To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the…
- Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place…
- There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of…
- I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of…
- Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from…
- I discharge every person under punishment or prosecution under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider, that law to be a nullity as…
- It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time to restrain the…
- The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And indeed it would…
- I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.
- Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all…
- And Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences, whether we consider its subjects as furnishing the principal subsistence of life to man and beast,…
- Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true,…
- During the late war I had an infallible rule for deciding what Great Britain would do on every occasion. It was, to consider what they…
- I consider the doctrines of Jesus as delivered by himself to contain the outlines of the sublimest system of morality that has ever been taught…
- It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate.
- The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should consider the speeches…
- Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should…
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