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Mean Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means…
- 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…
- The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left…
- A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right…
- The man who loves his country on its own account, and not merely for its trappings of interest or power, can never be divorced for…
- The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at…
- If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the…
- I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every nation, if undertaken…
- Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent.
- I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is better than that…
- It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good…
- Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to…
- 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in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn…
- It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is…
- The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless.
- I may err in my measures, but never shall deflect from the intention to fortify the public liberty by every possible means, and to put…
- Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them.
- It is unfortunate that the efforts of mankind to recover the freedom of which they have been so long deprived, will be accompanied with violence,…
- But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either party? The ultimate…
- To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or…
- 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…
- ... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation…
- It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so…
- I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means…
- The most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to…
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- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
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- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams