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Persons Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- for the present we may groupe the sciences into Professorships as follows, subject however to be changed according to the qualifications of the persons we…
- But whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he…
- He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people…
- The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.
- Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only…
- Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond…
- I discharge every person under punishment or prosecution under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider, that law to be a nullity as…
- It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation . . . . Our interest will be to throw open…
- 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…
- The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise…
- No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him…
- It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to…
- A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns, not indeed in person,…
- Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.
- The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed him in that…
- All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution.
- The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
- Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how…
- Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong