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Enterprise Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.
- Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through…
- Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands…
- No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil…
- Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.
- A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body,…
- Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how…
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- Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics. — Pope Benedict XVI
- I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right. — Tony Blair
- We've shown the world that New York can never be defeated, because of its dynamic and diverse population and because it embodies… — Michael Bloomberg
- When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- I can't think of another enterprise other than being a homeowner that can't have its debt restructured in bankruptcy. Corporations can but… — Eli Broad
- No one in the American Enterprise imposes their beliefs. We clash, and I think that's what the West is all about. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- You know, I've got experiences going back to the wage price controls in the Nixon administration where, in effect, we had what… — Dick Cheney
- From our perspective, trying to deal with this continuing campaign of terror, if you will, the war on terror that we're engaged… — Dick Cheney
- Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk.… — Winston Churchill
- When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral vision of… — Martin Amis
- Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests.… — Marie Curie