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Portion Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe…
- I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can be most useful…
- I learn with great concern that [one] portion of our frontier so interesting, so important, and so exposed, should be so entirely unprovided with common…
- That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish…
- All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn…
- I deem it the duty of every man to devote a certain portion of his income for charitable purposes; and that it is his further…
- It is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land. The…
- Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object: the public good; but they differ essentially…
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- No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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- It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. — George Washington