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Permitted Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The…
- Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural…
- 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…
- He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.
- The trifling economy of paper, as a cheaper medium, or its convenience for transmission, weighs nothing in opposition to the advantages of the precious metals…
- No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity
- Reason and free inquiry are the only effective agents against error. Give a loose to them, they will support the true religion by bringing every…
- Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.
- Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
- In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of…
- Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reenactments; because a constant hold by the nation of the strings of the public purse is a…
More Permitted Quotes
- That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of… — Thomas Aquinas
- Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ...… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The job of the press is to speak truth to power. And yet, for doing our job, we are persecuted. I say… — Sarah Harrison
- Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is… — Ambrose Bierce
- After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given… — Theodore Bikel
- Our highest ambition is to be included in the stream of American life, to be permitted to "play the game" as any… — Chester Himes
- ... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Both Adam and Hawwa were created as adults. They were tall and beautiful. They were much taller than people are today. Prophet… — Babloo