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Man Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief…
- Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
- No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to…
- the study of the law is useful in a variety of points of view. it qualifies a man to be useful to himself, to his…
- I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man.
- this interesting subject, which, if the condition of man is to be progressively ameliorated, as we fondly hope and believe, is to be the chief…
- I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and…
- Wake up, dream, have the ambition to do the things you have always dreamed of, go farther than any man has ever been before, go…
- But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.
- The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to…
- Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as…
- The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man
- The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe…
- The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and…
- Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his…
- The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and…
- His [Calvin's] religion was demonism. If ever man worshiped a false God, he did. The being described in his five points is ... a demon…
- The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by…
- Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect,…
- Tranquility is the old man's milk.
- Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.
- Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man.
- 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…
- Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no…
- In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in…
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — 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
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle