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Force Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The…
- This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere…
- Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
- In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first…
- Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the sciences…
- 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…
- I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or…
- Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong…
- To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and…
- Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom…
- I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of the issue where…
- Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.
- Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our…
- We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary…
- He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.
- When we come to the moral principles on which the government is to be administered, we come to what is proper for all conditions of…
- Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has formed man insusceptible…
- But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either party? The ultimate…
- The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them. ... Love…
- In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first…
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- Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges,… — Richard G. Scott
- The enduring responsibility of the United States Air Force is to provide strategic deterrence for the Nation and fly, fight and win… — Norton A. Schwartz
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times… — Ansel Adams
- Don't find love, let it find you. It's called falling in love because you don't force yourself to fall, you just do. — Taylor Swift
- Don't Force Someone To Remember You All Time. Just Stay Silent And Let Them Realize How Will They Be Without You In… — Ritu Ghatourey
- We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence. — Paul Auster