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Sufficient Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest…
- The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet invented sufficient aids…
- To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and…
- Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.
- Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural…
- 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…
- Unless the mass retains sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted to their own oppression, and to…
- I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided in sufficient proportion,…
- Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter…
- Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear…
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- The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless… — Conrad Black
- While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman. — Giovanni Boccaccio
- I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient… — Emily Bronte
- If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is… — Dan Brown
- The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to… — Steven Brust
- To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of… — Jean de la Bruyere
- Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. — Samuel Butler