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Mass Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they…
- The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately,…
- To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to…
- Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree,…
- To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which…
- The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated…
- Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.
- All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn…
- The mass of the citizens is the safest depositary of their own rights.
- You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be…
- Unless the mass retains sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted to their own oppression, and to…
- If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object; but if we break into squads, everyone pursuing the path…
- And say, finally, whether peace is best preserved by giving energy to the government or information to the people. This last is the most legitimate…
- Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
- The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is…
- All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every…
More Mass Quotes
- Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by… — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. — Jose Maria Aznar
- Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course,… — Rowan Atkinson
- What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not… — Sri Aurobindo
- The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. — Irving Babbitt
- A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of… — Irving Babbitt
- In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses. — Russell Baker
- To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds. — Tallulah Bankhead
- Often the masses are plundered and do not know it. — Frederic Bastiat