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Given Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.
- Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as…
- The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man
- Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the…
- It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed by those who…
- Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only…
- 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…
- If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the…
- Your own reason is the only oracle given to you by God.
- It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time to restrain the…
- War is not the best engine for us to resort to; nature has given us one in our commerce, which if properly managed, will be…
- 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…
- Sir, no nation has ever yet existed or been governed without religion. Nor can be. The Christian religion is the best religion that has been…
- I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of…
- The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a subject of consideration…
- Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine; nor…
- Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision
- The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.
- We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive…
- For the power given to Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State (that is to…
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