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Degrees Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day,…
- It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we…
- But whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he…
- Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree,…
- The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights, and are the only instruments which can be used for their…
- A government regulating itself by what is wise and just for the many, uninfluenced by the local and selfish views of the few who direct…
- Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong…
- The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated…
- It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that [a society without government, as among our Indians] is not the best. But I believe…
- If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves. It were contrary to feeling and indeed…
- It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too…
- I... [proposed] three distinct grades of education, reaching all classes. 1. Elementary schools for all children generally, rich and poor. 2. Colleges for a middle…
- And say, finally, whether peace is best preserved by giving energy to the government or information to the people. This last is the most legitimate…
- I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
- The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger…
- Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with…
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- Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course,… — Rowan Atkinson
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen
- Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty. — Paul Auster
- It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he… — Charles Babbage
- I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in… — Michele Bachmann
- Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which… — Honore de Balzac
- There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees. — Francis Beaumont
- Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree. — Ambrose Bierce
- Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. — Ambrose Bierce
- Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. — Ambrose Bierce