« All Take Quotes · Thomas Jefferson's Page
Take Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- It is not the policy of the government in America to give aid to works of any kind. They let things take their natural course…
- A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so…
- Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have…
- Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
- Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man.
- What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not…
- The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts…
- Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural…
- I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely…
- The future inhabitants of [both] the Atlantic and Mississippi states will be our sons. We think we see their happiness in their union, and we…
- I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means…
- Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands…
- It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to…
- To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare…
- Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear their…
- I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into…
- 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,…
- What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as…
- 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…
- Men of energy of character must have enemies; because there are two sides to every question, and taking one with decision, and acting on it…
More Take Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a… — Julian Assange
- The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. — J. J. Abrams
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger. — Lance Armstrong