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Independent Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the states are independent as to everything within themselves and united as…
- Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous and they are tied to…
- Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.
- A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at…
- My construction of the constitution is very different from that you quote. It is that each department is truly independent of the others, and has…
- 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…
- 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…
- Cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous and independent citizens.
- Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation.
- The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as…
- Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object: the public good; but they differ essentially…
- In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the general government. I…
- not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of…
- I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's…
- When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.
- I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. . . . We…
- 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…
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- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker. — Darren Aronofsky
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every… — John Avlon
- I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If… — Lauren Bacall
- It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. — James A. Baldwin
- I'm a registered Independent. But my brother says it's obvious that I'm a Republican sympathizer. Once I get in the voting booth,… — Stephen Baldwin
- Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call a cat,… — Antonio Banderas
- The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the… — John Quincy Adams
- I think every American has a role in saving this country. Whether you're Democrat, Republican, independent, it doesn't matter. We all know… — Glenn Beck
- I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18. — Ingrid Bergman