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Office Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- 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.
- When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have…
- Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural…
- [T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore . . . never to see all…
- The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning…
- The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And indeed it would…
- I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is better than that…
- In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the…
- It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that as yet we…
- The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I.
- He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
- The foundation on which (our government is) built is the natural equality of man, the denial of every pre-eminence but that annexed to legal office,…
- If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate, his office, though nominally elective,…
- Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making.
- The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These covering our land with officers, and opening…
- 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…
- If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.
- Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
- I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
- Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
- The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
- No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case…
- The second office of this government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
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