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Therefore Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.
- we defer therefore till this time twelve month to avail ourselves of the instruction of that place, and particularly of your kindness in the two…
- In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in…
- 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…
- No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may…
- Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong…
- The division into whig and tory is founded in the nature of men; the weakly and nerveless, the rich and the corrupt, seeing more safety…
- [T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore . . . never to see all…
- Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to…
- Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
- Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all…
- 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…
- Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in…
- An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a republic. Self-government is not possible unless the citizens are educated sufficiently to enable them…
- He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter of science. For…
- 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…
- 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…
- The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless... From the conclusion of this war we shall…
- A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body,…
- None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.
More Therefore Quotes
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle
- Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. — Francis Bacon
- A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward… — Pope Benedict XVI
- When you meet with crosses and calamities, say, "Now I see God's justice and God's truth; now I see the hatefulness and… — William Whately