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Hands Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.
- Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest…
- When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have…
- Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands…
- 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…
- Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to reflect on the…
- I hold it certain that to open the doors of truth and to fortify the habit of testing everything by reason are the most effectual…
- Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from…
- 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…
- The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be…
- Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through…
- 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…
- Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the…
- 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…
- Specie [gold and silver coin] is the most perfect medium because it will preserve its own level; because, having intrinsic and universal value, it can…
- I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old.
- Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. . . . We might as well require a man…
- Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships…
- SIR,-Your letter of February the 18th came to hand on the 1st instant; and the request of the history of my physical habits would have…
- Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the hand of nature.…
- I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress 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…
- The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them. ... Love…
- Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every…
- The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.
More Hands Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization… — Julian Assange
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if… — Saint Augustine
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen
- The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed… — Alfred Austin
- I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that… — Teresa of Avila
- I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the… — Teresa of Avila
- God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf