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Please Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.
- The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet invented sufficient aids…
- [If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if…
- Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing…
- The provisions we have made [for our government] are such as please ourselves; they answer the substantial purposes of government and of justice, and other…
- It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good…
- Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will.
- To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, 'to lay taxes for the purpose of providing…
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- Some brewers of Ale and Beere doe put it into their drinke to make it more heady, fit to please drunkards, who… — Matthias de l'Obel
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- Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool.… — Margaret Atwood
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — Teresa of Avila
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- Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take… — Seneca the Younger