« All Provision Quotes · Thomas Jefferson's Page
Provision Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results…
- No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil…
- The provisions we have made [for our government] are such as please ourselves; they answer the substantial purposes of government and of justice, and other…
- There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and…
More Provision Quotes
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial… — Robert Bork
- My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert… — James Buchan
- Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in… — Sharron Angle
- Every time we sign a treaty with another country, the treaty (should) include prisoner transfer provisions.... Under these provisions, the country in… — Kathleen Brown
- Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political or industrial,… — George Ellery Hale
- We have consistently supported a legalization program which is both generous to the alien and fair to the countless thousands of people… — Ronald Reagan