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His Fellow Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty,…
- Being myself a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without injury to the…
- I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest…
- An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never been a moment…
- And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers, if not in…
- An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
More His Fellow Quotes
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most… — Martin Van Buren
- An Atheist loves himself and his fellow man instead of a god. An Atheist knows that heaven is something for which we… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair
- Since much wealth too often proves a snare and an incumbrance in the Christian's race, let him lighten the weight by 'dispersing… — Augustus Toplady
- That Americans are entitled to freedom is incontestable on every rational principle. All men have one common original: they participate in one… — Alexander Hamilton
- In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to… — Henry Highland Garnet
- The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition… — Theodore Dwight Weld
- No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage,… — B. C. Forbes
- It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes… — John Maynard Keynes
- He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving God the holiest way he can.... — Alice Cary
- Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go… — William E. Gladstone
- A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence… — Thomas Carlyle