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Evils Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- 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 is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.
- Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment.
- 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…
- Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
- 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…
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- Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown… — Joseph Addison
- There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. — Saul Bellow
- Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils.… — Isaiah Berlin
- Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. — Ambrose Bierce
- The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen. — Aeschylus
- My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything;… — Aeschylus
- If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good? — Boethius
- But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice,… — Edmund Burke