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Subjects Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- for the present we may groupe the sciences into Professorships as follows, subject however to be changed according to the qualifications of the persons we…
- this interesting subject, which, if the condition of man is to be progressively ameliorated, as we fondly hope and believe, is to be the chief…
- I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance…
- Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And…
- Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses; and…
- But whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he…
- To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to…
- There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of…
- The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of rulers not subject…
- It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed by those who…
- Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his…
- Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.
- 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…
- Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through…
- And Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences, whether we consider its subjects as furnishing the principal subsistence of life to man and beast,…
- I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of…
- 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…
- The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a subject of consideration…
- Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine; nor…
- The movements of nature are in a never ending circle. The animal species which has once been put into a train of motion, is still…
- On the subject of the history of the American Revolution, you ask who shall write it? Who can write it? And who will ever be…
- The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject to the coercion…
- I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and…
- My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
- not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of…
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- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard. — Margaret Atwood
- Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will… — Teresa of Avila
- The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly… — Charles Babbage
- I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope… — Charles Babbage
- If you are a gun manufacturer, the product you make is not subject to safety regulation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.… — Michael D. Barnes
- I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk. — Lynda Barry
- All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps,… — Mario Batali