Depositories Quotes
7 quotes by 5 authors
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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,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by whose sorcery times…
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each the guardian of…
— George Washington
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No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Many causes produce war. There are ancient hatreds, turbulent frontiers, the "legacy of old forgotten, far-off things, and battles long ago." There are new-born fanaticisms.…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
— Thomas Jefferson
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You will smile here at the consistency of those democratists who, when they are not on their guard, treat the humbler part of the community…
— Edmund Burke
Who Wrote These Depositories Quotes
5 authors contributed a total of 7 Depositories Quotes as follows: