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Plain Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear their…
- The Constitution on which our Union rests, shall be administered by me [as President] according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated by the plain…
- Never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration; never saw even an elemental trait of…
- The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as…
- not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of…
- It was more in our spirit to let things come to rights by the plain dictates of common sense than by the practice of any…
More Plain Quotes
- Lovers O lovers, lovers it is time to set out from the world. I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming… — Unknown Author
- To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen… — Jane Austen
- The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for… — Duke of Wellington
- The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;… — William Hazlitt
- Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward. — William Wilberforce
- Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in… — Irving Babbitt
- Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. — Francis Bacon