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Best State Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either…
- I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the usurpation of all…
- Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power…
- I do verily believe that if the principle were to prevail of a common law being in force in the United States (which principle possesses…
- For the power given to Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State (that is to…
- It is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land. The…
- In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the general government. I…
- If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors without suffering the…
- 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…
- Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
- If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
- The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care…
- Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all…
- If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state…
- Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.
- To make us one nation as to foreign concerns, and keep us distinct in Domestic ones gives the outline of the proper division of powers…
- When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the rest have a natural right…
More State Quotes
- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is… — Dean Acheson
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen
- We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law. — Mahmoud Abbas
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — Teresa of Avila
- 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