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Principles Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- [Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw off, it will…
- the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to…
- This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere…
- We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and obedience to the…
- [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…
- Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.
- It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
- 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…
- 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…
- Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses; and…
- It is (our) duty . . . to pay especial attention to the principles of government which shall be inculcated therein (at the University), and…
- But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who…
- I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of…
- To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare…
- Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.
- It is time enough, for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere [in the propagation of religious teachings] when principles break…
- No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former…
- 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…
- Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption of principles, and…
- Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence…
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- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Be in harmony with the Tao, with the basic principles of creation. To not be in harmony with that flow, no matter… — Frederick Lenz
- No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad… — Thomas Jefferson
- Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to… — Arthur W. Pink
- Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. — Ambrose Bierce
- In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear. — Kofi Annan
- Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to learn the… — Alexander Hamilton