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Construction Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth…
- Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to reflect on the…
- Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.
- The construction applied . . . to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power . . . ought…
- [T]he true key for the construction of everything doubtful in a law is the intention of the law-makers. This is most safely gathered from the…
- The Constitution on which our Union rests, shall be administered by me [as President] according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated by the plain…
- My construction of the constitution is very different from that you quote. It is that each department is truly independent of the others, and has…
- Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.
- I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would…
- Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.
- 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…
- On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of…
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- The operating management, providing as it does for the care of near thirty thousand miles of railway, is far more important than… — John B. Jervis
- All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts… — Albert Einstein
- Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill… — Joseph Story
- Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not,… — Flannery O'Connor
- When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will… — Edmund Burke
- It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the… — David Allan Coe
- All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture,… — Tadao Ando
- Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its… — Richard Courant