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Particular Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in…
- Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public…
- Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.
- 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…
- Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine; nor…
- With all the defects in our Constitution, whether general or particular, the comparison of our government with those of Europe, is like a comparison of…
- To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical; . .…
- Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree…
- I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.
- To make us one nation as to foreign concerns, and keep us distinct in Domestic ones gives the outline of the proper division of powers…
- A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should…
More Particular Quotes
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. — Aristotle
- Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role.… — Neil Armstrong
- In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's… — Rowan Atkinson
- Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of… — Charles Babbage
- We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling… — Douglas Bader
- The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. — Lord Acton
- Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and… — Erykah Badu