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Leave Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- [Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw off, it will…
- When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives…
- The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet invented sufficient aids…
- No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may…
- A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a younger and more…
- 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…
- Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all…
- The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings,…
- I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the usurpation of all…
- A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of…
- Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
- Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more…
- I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman…
- The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.
- A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry…
- If government have a right of demanding ad libitum and of taxing us themselves to the full amount of their demand if we do not…
- A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the…
- My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave the consequences to Him who has the disposal of them
More Leave Quotes
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country. — Chinua Achebe
- I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly… — Chinua Achebe
- Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn. — Burt Bacharach
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in… — Douglas Bader
- You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. — Anita Baker
- I think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I'm… — Alec Baldwin
- The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in. — James A. Baldwin