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Minds Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be informed by education…
- To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which…
- 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…
- Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom…
- Truth between candid minds can never do harm.
- The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our…
- The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us.
- When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet…
- I pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people.
- When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community. The objects of…
- I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest…
- 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…
- Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.
- Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people…
- Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.
- The danger is that the cruel arts of their oppressors have enchained their minds, have kept them in the ignorance of children, and as incapable…
More Minds Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
- To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. — Marcus Aurelius
- Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,… — Sri Aurobindo
- Nobody minds having what is too good for them. — Jane Austen
- Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. — Gaston Bachelard
- A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon
- When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally… — Ansel Adams