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Might Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them…
- I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance…
- Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the…
- [If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if…
- For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.
- Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. . . . We might as well require a man…
- 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…
- The movements of nature are in a never ending circle. The animal species which has once been put into a train of motion, is still…
- We might have been a free and great people together.
- SIR,-Your letter of February the 18th came to hand on the 1st instant; and the request of the history of my physical habits would have…
- Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power…
- I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of men, and inclined…
- The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed him in that…
- Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle... Perhaps an editor…
- The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever more dangerous. Jesus had to work on the perilous confines of reason and…
- This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves where we are…
- I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the cupidity of their…
- I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of…
More Might Quotes
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. — Francis of Assisi
- People are smarter than you might think. — John Astin