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Merely Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely the ravings of…
- 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.
- If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of…
- 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…
- Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong…
- The Constitution on which our Union rests, shall be administered by me [as President] according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated by the plain…
- On the subject of the history of the American Revolution, you ask who shall write it? Who can write it? And who will ever be…
- He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter of science. For…
- I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt;…
- We believe no more in Bonaparte's fighting merely for the liberties of the seas than in Great Britain's fighting for the liberties of mankind. The…
- We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and therefore…
- I am for a government rigorously frugal and simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt;…
More Merely Quotes
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice… — Carl von Clausewitz
- If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the… — C.S. Lewis
- What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily… — Bertrand Russell
- .. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist… — Michel de Montaigne
- The notion that somehow or another they'll (Iran) put it in a picnic basket and hand it to some terrorist group is… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
- True greatness merely refuses to change in the face of bad actions against one—and a truly great person loves his fellows because… — L. Ron Hubbard