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Latter Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he…
- You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of equal note, reject…
- The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left…
- I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the…
- Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the government, and acts…
- I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is better than that…
- If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter
- The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of the first necessity to the wealth…
- If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New Testament]father upon him,…
- Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a…
- Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment…
- Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a…
More Latter Quotes
- Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better… — Jane Austen
- Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. — Hosea Ballou
- If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and… — Honore de Balzac
- The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their… — Joseph Addison
- Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States - a nation with a spiritual foundation and a prophetic… — Ezra Taft Benson
- The Book of Mormon is the 'keystone' of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the 'capstone,' with continuing latter day… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by century and… — Annie Besant
- Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part of the… — Annie Besant