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Men Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
- 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 Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.
- Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country
- 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…
- the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to…
- 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.
- Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
- 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…
- Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one…
- 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…
- Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that…
- [T]hat the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle