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Preserve Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they…
- What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not…
- The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human…
- The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts…
- It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to…
- Every man's reason is his own rightful umpire. This principle, with that of acquiescence in the will of the majority, will preserve us free and…
- Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that,…
- [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 .…
- Specie [gold and silver coin] is the most perfect medium because it will preserve its own level; because, having intrinsic and universal value, it can…
- And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light…
- And say, finally, whether peace is best preserved by giving energy to the government or information to the people. This last is the most legitimate…
- To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or…
- What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let…
- To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for…
More Preserve Quotes
- Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not… — Francis Bacon
- There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what… — Francis Bacon
- Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a… — John Adams
- Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. — John Quincy Adams
- The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their… — Joseph Addison
- For children preserve the fame of a man after his death. — Aeschylus
- A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. — Edmund Burke
- How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life,… — Richard Burton
- Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past? — David Byrne
- Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time,… — Thomas Carlyle
- The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity. — Miguel de Cervantes
- It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief,… — Chanakya