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Rules Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in…
- State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he…
- Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very precise rules, the…
- Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to…
- We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary…
- He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter of science. For…
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- Most illegal immigrants are not by nature lawbreakers. Most are looking for the chance to live in dignity. Nevertheless we must continue… — William J. Clinton
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- The objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win. — Vince Lombardi
- Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning… — Thomas Jefferson