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Effect Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect towards supporting free…
- 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…
- In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in…
- Men of energy of character must have enemies; because there are two sides to every question, and taking one with decision, and acting on it…
- I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every nation, if undertaken…
- I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect…
- It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good…
- It is a cruel thought, that, when we feel ourselves standing on the firmest ground in every respect, the cursed arts of our secret enemies,…
- 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…
- Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.
- I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than…
- What has been the effect of coericion [sic]? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and errors…
- The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.
- What has been the effect of religious coercion? To make half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.
- Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one…
More Effect Quotes
- The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one… — John Banville
- The great uncertainty of all data in war is because all action, to a certain extent, planned in a mere twilight -… — Carl von Clausewitz
- ... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and… — Aristotle
- The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by… — Charles Babbage
- As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times.… — Kevin Bacon
- I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good… — Alan Ball
- Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead… — Gerry Adams
- The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and… — John Adams