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Object Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- what is wanting to restore us to our station among our confederates? not more money from the people. enough has been raised by them, and…
- In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object.
- [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 abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.
- To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to…
- The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left…
- No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may…
- A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a younger and more…
- 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…
- With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thing-but health,…
- The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.
- The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated…
- The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
- He alone who walks strict and upright, and who, in matters of opinion, will be contented that others should be as free as himself and…
- One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.
- The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, gaining ground step…
- Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the…
- Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object.
- But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is…
- Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the ultimate object of…
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