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Living Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
- Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the sciences…
- Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
- Born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not listening to wicked…
- Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them.
- No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.
- The soil is the gift of God to the living.
- The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.
- The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed him in that…
- My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
- The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
- I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's…
- The dead should not rule the living
- I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. . . . We…
- Living is something everyone can do, but few actually experience
More Living Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat… — Joe Arpaio
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov