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Him Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief…
- No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to…
- we defer therefore till this time twelve month to avail ourselves of the instruction of that place, and particularly of your kindness in the two…
- Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the…
- His [Calvin's] religion was demonism. If ever man worshiped a false God, he did. The being described in his five points is ... a demon…
- We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation…
- He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people…
- If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of…
- 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…
- 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…
- No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may…
- This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be…
- Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.
- There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.
- Easter was when they nailed Him to the cross. And He never said a mumbling word.
- 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…
- I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents…
- If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice…
- He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it…
- Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. . . . We might as well require a man…
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- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him. — William Shakespeare
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- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to… — Arthur W. Pink
- Then, accepting the help of God and of God's signs, he allows his personal legend to guide him toward the tasks that… — Paulo Coelho
- We ask the risen Jesus, who turns death into life, to change hatred into love, vengeance into forgiveness, war into peace. Yes,… — Pope Francis