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Rational Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the…
- Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect,…
- This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be…
- The rational and peacable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.
- Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.
- The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws,…
- The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being
- I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest…
- I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means…
- I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman…
- I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
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