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Mere Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Well, Page, I do wish the Devil had old Cooke, for I am sure I never was so tired of an old dull scoundrel in…
- This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere…
- The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.
- Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses; and…
- If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what one so cheap…
- We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary…
- The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only by being more…
- Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
- Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption…
- Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man…
- A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of…
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