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Human Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of…
- I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.
- To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are…
- The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human…
- Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place…
- But whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he…
- 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…
- The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of…
- The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every…
- 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…
- This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may…
- Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence…
- The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.
- The Gothic idea that we were to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and to recur to the annals…
- Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural…
- I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions.
- When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and…
- 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…
- I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all, find themselves securely…
- When we come to the moral principles on which the government is to be administered, we come to what is proper for all conditions of…
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