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Private Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And…
- Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their…
- Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands…
- Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.
- Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.
- I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of…
- I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into…
- The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public…
- 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…
- Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of…
- That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a…
- I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared... We must not let our…
- A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not…
- If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my fellow citizens, trophies…
- Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.
- I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are…
- If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations…
More Private Quotes
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur
- I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply… — Margaret Atwood
- A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay… — Lauren Bacall
- It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially. — Lauren Bacall
- When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and… — Lauren Bacall
- Mitt Romney understands the private sector, he understands how profit is created, and he isn't embarrassed by it. — Michele Bachmann
- It would be fun to have someone in the White House who has worked in the private sector... and someone who understands… — Michele Bachmann
- As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have… — David Baldacci
- I try to keep my private life kind of private. — Tyra Banks
- From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time,… — Tyra Banks
- I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility… — Banksy