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Institutions Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day,…
- I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results…
- I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.
- 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…
- Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands…
- Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption of principles, and…
- 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…
- The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated…
- But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to…
- During the course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged with whatsoever its…
- Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. . . . We might as well require a man…
- The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us.
- I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of…
- A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia]
- All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution.
- I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
- The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.
- As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace…
- I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of…
- Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all…
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- London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want,… — David Attenborough
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have… — Drew Barrymore
- An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the… — Clara Barton
- Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken… — Gary Bauer
- As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything. — Pierre Beaumarchais
- What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing… — Henry Ward Beecher
- No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions… — Ruth Benedict
- FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day… — Felix Adler
- Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature. — Annie Besant
- Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God wanted Adam… — Lewis Black
- What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and… — William Blake