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Laid Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of…
- I considered 4 of these bills [of the revised code of Virginia] as forming a system by which every fibre would be eradicated of antient…
- That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people…
- Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships…
- Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in…
- A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price…
- While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it…
- The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion.
- All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every…
- I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor…
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