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Purposes Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- 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…
- 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…
- Our tenet ever was . . . that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically…
- 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…
- 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…
- History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their…
- History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their…
More Purposes 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
- The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and… — Chester A. Arthur
- Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just… — Antonio Banderas
- Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. — Jacques Barzun
- No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma -… — Alfred Adler
- FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day… — Felix Adler
- If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify… — Halle Berry
- Don't solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can… — Sara Blakely
- If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs. — Aesop
- I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes. — Jo Brand
- Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. — Louis D. Brandeis
- Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of… — James Buchan