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Evil Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
- Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded,…
- The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one…
- 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…
- The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that there shall always…
- The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of…
- It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.
- It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or an evil I…
- Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment.
- Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships…
- I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts.
- When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet…
- When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its…
- The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.
- Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would be as worthy…
- Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
- Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
- How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
- 1.Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. 2.Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3.Never spend your money before you…
- By a declaration of rights, I mean one which shall stipulate freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce against monopolies, trial by…
More Evil Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
- A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.... — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery… — Teresa of Avila
- If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to… — Teresa of Avila
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people… — Chester A. Arthur