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I Believe Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- 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…
- I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set…
- I believe the states can best govern our home concerns and the federal government our foreign ones.
- A government regulating itself by what is wise and just for the many, uninfluenced by the local and selfish views of the few who direct…
- May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to…
- This ball of liberty, I believe most piously, is now so well in motion that it will roll round the globe. at least the enlightened…
- It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that [a society without government, as among our Indians] is not the best. But I believe…
- I believe that justice is instinct and innate, that the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing,…
- 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…
- It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or an evil I…
- I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
- I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
- History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their…
- Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world; but that he…
- Perfect happiness I believe was never intended by the deity to be the lot of any one of his creatures in this world; but that…
- History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their…
- I believe that justice is instinct and innate; the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing…
More I Believe Quotes
- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing… — Neil Armstrong
- I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that. — David Attenborough
- I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply… — Margaret Atwood
- It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are… — Jane Austen
- How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would… — Teresa of Avila
- And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool. — Dan Aykroyd
- I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy. — Michelle Bachelet
- I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large -… — Julianna Baggott