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Safe Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.
- The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to…
- The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these…
- Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree,…
- The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights, and are the only instruments which can be used for their…
- Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from…
- The Constitution on which our Union rests, shall be administered by me [as President] according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated by the plain…
- I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county,…
- 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…
- If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be ... The People cannot be safe without…
- It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too…
- The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights.
- Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
- Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
- I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough…
More Safe Quotes
- In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources… — Julian Assange
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood
- An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels… — Jane Austen
- We aren't using Guantanamo Bay anymore to take additional terrorists. That was the perfect facility to be able to use to extract… — Michele Bachmann
- Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and… — Lord Acton
- When I get onstage in a play, I feel very safe, very protected, very fulfilled. — Alec Baldwin
- I never want to feel that I'm playing it safe. — Christian Bale
- U.S. agricultural products, including safe, high-quality Montana beef, face unscientific trade restrictions in many important markets. — Max Baucus
- A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for… — James M. Barrie
- I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you… — Jean Baudrillard
- I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. — Simone de Beauvoir
- The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. — Ruth Benedict