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Power Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief…
- When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the…
- Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom…
- I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.
- 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 consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results…
- I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set…
- In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in…
- Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural…
- I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely…
- All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.
- Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government.
- The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth…
- My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on…
- It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to…
- The man who loves his country on its own account, and not merely for its trappings of interest or power, can never be divorced for…
- The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at…
- Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom…
- Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.
- The division into whig and tory is founded in the nature of men; the weakly and nerveless, the rich and the corrupt, seeing more safety…
- I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every nation, if undertaken…
- The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace.
- We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent…
- Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our…
- The power of making war often prevents it.
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- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo