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Earth Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.
- The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.
- Wake up, dream, have the ambition to do the things you have always dreamed of, go farther than any man has ever been before, go…
- Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous and they are tied to…
- Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as…
- Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one…
- Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their…
- A single good government becomes... a blessing to the whole earth, its welcome to the oppressed restraining within certain limits the measure of their oppressions.…
- 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…
- Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.
- The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent…
- The cement of this union is in the heart blood of every American. I do not believe there is on earth a government established on…
- When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and…
- Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.
- Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And never…
- Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he has made his…
- It has also been a great solace to me, to believe that you are engaged in vindicating to posterity the course we have pursued for…
- Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our…
- I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is better than that…
- In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open,…
- When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.
- I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of…
- Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the hand of nature.…
- No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.
- Cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous and independent citizens.
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. — Neil Armstrong
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas… — Margaret Atwood
- We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
- What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
- Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle. — Michele Bachmann