Depositories Quotes

7 quotes by 5 authors

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. — Thomas Jefferson
• 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:

• 3 Depositories Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
• 1 Depositories Quote by Edwin Percy Whipple
• 1 Depositories Quote by George Washington
• 1 Depositories Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt
• 1 Depositories Quote by Edmund Burke