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Receive Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
- I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.
- Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a…
- The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left…
- Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . .…
- Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the hand of nature.…
- We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that…
- When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community. The objects of…
- Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a…
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- For it is in giving that we receive. — Francis of Assisi
- To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen… — Jane Austen
- God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to… — Teresa of Avila
- I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what… — Bob Beauprez
- There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice. — Joseph Addison
- One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in… — Judy Biggert
- Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from… — Erma Bombeck
- The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric. — James Broughton
- The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's,… — Leo Buscaglia
- All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. — Alexis Carrel