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Hold Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.
- The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet invented sufficient aids…
- 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…
- The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out…
- 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…
- Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to. . . . But where, by small grammatical negligences, the energy of…
- Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a…
- I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms are in…
- We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among…
- For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.
- Always take hold of things by the smooth handle grateful that they are not worse rather than the rough handle, bitter that they are not…
- I consider the doctrines of Jesus as delivered by himself to contain the outlines of the sublimest system of morality that has ever been taught…
- If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object; but if we break into squads, everyone pursuing the path…
- I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided in sufficient proportion,…
- Where the principle of difference [between political parties] is as substantial and as strongly pronounced as between the republicans and the monocrats of our country,…
- This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves where we are…
- Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
- We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that…
- I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the…
- I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man...
- Politics, like religion, hold up torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.
- Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reenactments; because a constant hold by the nation of the strings of the public purse is a…
- We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights…
More Hold Quotes
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. — Richard Armour
- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
- Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power… — Margaret Atwood
- Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with… — Saint Augustine
- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo
- I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my… — Lauren Bacall
- The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing… — Edward Bach
- You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in… — Richard Bach
- If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold… — Abigail Adams
- I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to… — Roger Nash Baldwin
- We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached… — Ansel Adams