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Less Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance…
- Traveling makes men wiser, but less happy.
- I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but…
- Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very precise rules, the…
- Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his…
- I sincerely wish you may find it convenient to come here. the pleasure of the trip will be less than you expect, but the utility…
- Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong…
- Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond…
- I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions.
- I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is less wealth there,…
- Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our…
- [I]t seems that the Cannibals of Europe are going to eat one another again. A war between Russia and Turkey is like the battle of…
- If, then, the control of the people over the organs of their government be the measure of its republicanism, and I confess I know no…
- You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my dispos[i]tion to maintain…
- The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of…
- If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves. It were contrary to feeling and indeed…
- If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an…
- ... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering. I…
- Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are…
- Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise.
More Less Quotes
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The less government we have the better. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Take Me Or Leave Me Accept Me Or Walk Away, Love Me Or Hate Me But Dont Make Me Feel Like Less… — Superman
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves… — Bernard Baruch
- One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out… — C.S. Lewis