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Purpose Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
- In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in…
- It is (our) duty . . . to pay especial attention to the principles of government which shall be inculcated therein (at the University), and…
- My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on…
- Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the sciences…
- 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…
- The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at…
- 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…
- The Gothic idea that we were to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and to recur to the annals…
- Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent.
- The people, especially when moderately instructed, are the only safe, because the only honest, depositaries of the public rights, and should therefore be introduced into…
- Our tenet ever was . . . that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically…
- The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles.
- The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings,…
- The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.
- I deem it the duty of every man to devote a certain portion of his income for charitable purposes; and that it is his further…
- [The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts shall…
- 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…
- To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, 'to lay taxes for the purpose of providing…
- Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should…
More Purpose Quotes
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash
- God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you… — Unknown Author
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- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- I think it's important that people know what raising the debt ceiling is. It's Congress giving permission to the federal government to… — Michele Bachmann
- When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life. — Unknown Author
- Prayer is not intended to change God's purpose, nor is it to move Him to form fresh purposes. God has decreed that… — Arthur W. Pink