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Founded Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom…
- 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…
- An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which…
- A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right…
- The division into whig and tory is founded in the nature of men; the weakly and nerveless, the rich and the corrupt, seeing more safety…
- 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,…
- I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of our country. That wisdom has…
- 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.
- 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…
- There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and…
- Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.
- The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they…
- Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
- Resolved ... that it would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety…
- I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are…
- There is...an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents.... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions…
- Our principles are founded on the immovable basis of equal right and reason.
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- The family is the school of duties - founded on love. — Felix Adler
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- All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. — Edmund Burke
- Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits. — Edmund Burke
- America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to… — George W. Bush
- America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago. — Steve Buyer
- Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience. — Samuel Alexander
- Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
- America is the only country ever founded on a creed. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The universe is founded in consciousness and guided by it. The final reality is Universal Consciousness. The Supreme Consciousness is Omnipresent. Its… — Shriram Sharma
- Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as… — Jacques Monod