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Every Man Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left…
- The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these…
- The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.
- [If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if…
- Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of…
- By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of…
- Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his…
- Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.
- There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.
- Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.
- The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness,…
- The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws,…
- 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.…
- Every man has two countries: his own and France.
- If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be ... The People cannot be safe without…
- Every man cannot have his way in all things. If his opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing that of others preponderate…
- I deem it the duty of every man to devote a certain portion of his income for charitable purposes; and that it is his further…
- I have indeed two great measures at heart, without which no republic can maintain itself in strength: 1. That of general education, to enable every…
- Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety,…
- Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
- That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
- It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may,…
- Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a…
More Every Man Quotes
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. — Jane Austen
- We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right… — Michele Bachmann
- Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead. — Lucille Ball
- If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be… — Brigitte Bardot
- Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart,… — Henry Adams
- Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it… — James M. Barrie
- The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest… — James M. Barrie
- It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s… — Bruce Barton
- Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul. — Henry Ward Beecher
- The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every… — Henry Ward Beecher