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Proportion Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- 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…
- To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to…
- Men of energy of character must have enemies; because there are two sides to every question, and taking one with decision, and acting on it…
- The patriot, like the Christian, must learn to bear revilings and persecutions as a part of his duty; and in proportion as the trial is…
- Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.
- ... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering. I…
- I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided in sufficient proportion,…
- I... [proposed] three distinct grades of education, reaching all classes. 1. Elementary schools for all children generally, rich and poor. 2. Colleges for a middle…
- A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns, not indeed in person,…
- Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.
More Proportion Quotes
- If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of… — Mark Twain
- It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the… — Alexander Hamilton
- The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance,… — Charles Babbage
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
- We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. — Christian Nestell Bovee
- The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written. — Elizabeth Bowen
- The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do… — Madeleine Albright
- An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. — Henri Frederic Amiel