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Nor Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to…
- 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…
- The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].
- 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…
- [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…
- The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately,…
- We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation…
- The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these…
- By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of…
- Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only…
- The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
- But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that…
- Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a…
- The construction applied . . . to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power . . . ought…
- Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.
- Sir, no nation has ever yet existed or been governed without religion. Nor can be. The Christian religion is the best religion that has been…
- Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions of the day,…
- Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has formed man insusceptible…
- But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire…
- The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I.
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