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General Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in…
- The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the states are independent as to everything within themselves and united as…
- A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so…
- I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results…
- 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…
- Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
- Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government.
- Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.
- Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence…
- The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated…
- [T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore . . . never to see all…
- It has also been a great solace to me, to believe that you are engaged in vindicating to posterity the course we have pursued for…
- The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated…
- The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have…
- The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.
- The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.
- Our tenet ever was . . . that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically…
- I served with General Washington in die Legislature of Virginia...and...with Doctor Franklin in Congress. I never heard neither of them speak ten minutes at a…
- I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.
- The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government
- With all the defects in our Constitution, whether general or particular, the comparison of our government with those of Europe, is like a comparison of…
- It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too…
- If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority of the government,…
- The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as…
- I do verily believe that if the principle were to prevail of a common law being in force in the United States (which principle possesses…
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- As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence… — Kelly Ayotte
- That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it,… — Charles Babbage
- A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. — Walter Bagehot
- To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality… — Mikhail Bakunin
- The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done. — Arthur Balfour
- Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. — Honore de Balzac
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