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Secure Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time…
- With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thing-but health,…
- The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated…
- 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,…
- We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among…
- It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.
- If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.
- I have indeed two great measures at heart, without which no republic can maintain itself in strength: 1. That of general education, to enable every…
- This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves where we are…
- The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these…
- Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people…
- The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights.
More Secure Quotes
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- The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. — Aristotle
- I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself.… — David Attenborough
- Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand… — Felix Adler
- It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard,… — Samuel Johnson
- The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our… — Jane Addams
- Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the… — Ambrose Bierce
- I had to learn how to trust my gut. Trust what I know to be right... not right, but not waver on… — Mary J. Blige