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Term Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The attempt of Lavoisier to reform chemical nomenclature is premature. One single experiment may destroy the whole filiation of his terms; and his string of…
- A government regulating itself by what is wise and just for the many, uninfluenced by the local and selfish views of the few who direct…
- Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond…
- It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time to restrain the…
- But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that…
- The principle of the Constitution is that of a separation of legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions, except in cases specified. If this principle be not…
- We shall divert through our own Country a branch of commerce which the European States have thought worthy of the most important struggles and sacrifices,…
- The same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and tory belong to…
- I hope the terms of Excellency, Honor, Worship, Esquire, forever disappear from among us... I wish that of Mr. would follow them.
- Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of…
- 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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