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Practicable Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society,…
- 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…
- We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is…
- You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my dispos[i]tion to maintain…
- No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question is not what…
- When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet…
- In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first…
- The most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to…
- What has been the effect of coericion [sic]? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and errors…
More Practicable Quotes
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius
- My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and… — Thomas Jefferson
- No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him,… — Charles Horton Cooley
- Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena presented to… — Oliver Heaviside
- Like taxes, radioactivity has long been with us and in increasing amounts; it is not to be hated and feared, but accepted… — Ralph Lapp
- In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and… — Lord Kelvin
- Whether you struggle to remember a client's name, aspire to learn a new language, or are a student battling to prepare for… — Daniel T. Willingham
- The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal… — Nassau William Senior