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Degenerates Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate, his office, though nominally elective,…
- And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers, if not in…
- Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
- The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption…
More Degenerates Quotes
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and… — Lord Acton
- If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely… — Lord Chesterfield
- Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules,… — B R Ambedkar
- The primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races. — Harry J. Anslinger
- Through the years, I have combined meditation, action, and the Iron into a single strength. I believe that when the body is… — Henry Rollins
- I wish I could show you what a small marihuana cigarette can do to one of our degenerate Spanish-speaking residents. That's why… — Harry J. Anslinger
- All knowledge degenerates into probability. — David Hume
- The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom… — Thomas Paine
- It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles. — Seneca the Younger
- It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy… — Adolf Hitler
- The degree and duration of the torment of these degenerate and anti-Christian people, should be no other than would be approved of… — Isaac Newton