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State Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- this last establishment will probably be within a mile of Charlottesville, and four from Monticello, if the system should be adopted at all by our…
- Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as…
- 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…
- Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his…
- An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State.
- When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have…
- The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.
- 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,…
- It is (our) duty . . . to pay especial attention to the principles of government which shall be inculcated therein (at the University), and…
- But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who…
- Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of…
- The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.
- War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of…
- A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most…
- The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And indeed it would…
- The example of changing a constitution by assembling the wise men of the state, instead of assembling armies, will be worth as much to the…
- Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent…
- Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of…
- The principles on which we engaged, of which the charter of our independence is the record, were sanctioned by the laws of our being, and…
- But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire…
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- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he… — Sai Baba
- I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of… — Roger Nash Baldwin
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila
- If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a… — Dalai Lama
- With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting… — Bill Gates
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments. — Michelle Bachelet