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Often Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother…
- State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he…
- Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.
- With the same honest views, the most honest men often form different conclusions.
- Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.
- Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.
- The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace.
- The power of making war often prevents it.
- When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.
- I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county,…
- It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest,…
- I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of…
- Doubts and jealousies often beget the facts they fear.
- ...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic equation…
- He [Washington] has often declared to me that he considered our new constitution as an experiment on the practicability of republican government, and with what…
- While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it…
- Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within…
- Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption…
- We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.
- Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is…
- I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county,…
More Often Quotes
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- The simplest things are often the truest. — Richard Bach
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- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
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- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. — Arthur Ashe
- Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. — Julian Assange