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Powers Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to…
- Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his…
- 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…
- [T]hat the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his…
- An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which…
- When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have…
- Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
- 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 legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.
- Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the…
- The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.
- I am entirely persuaded that the agitations of the public mind advance its powers, and that at every vibration between the points of liberty and…
- 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…
- Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from…
- The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be…
- When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and…
- 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…
- 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…
- The construction applied . . . to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power . . . ought…
- [T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [the Constitution] has established .…
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