Best Thomas Sayings
387 Thomas quotes by 280 unique authors
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I've long believed that one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation…
— Ronald Reagan
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We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark…
— Barbara Jordan
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This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious protest. . .…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow citizens,…
— William J. Clinton
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Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the writing of fiction.…
— Dale Carnegie
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My long-time view about Christianity is that it represents an amalgam of two seemingly immiscible parts-the religion of Jesus and the religion of Paul. Thomas…
— Carl Sagan
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Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of…
— Thomas Hobbes
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I want to make a toast to all at this press event who agree with Thomas Jefferson, who said that our liberty depends on the…
— Sarah Palin
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I say this often, THINK. There is something in life called common sense. Webster's says common sense is sound and prudent judgment based on a…
— Jack White
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A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.
— Thomas A. Edison
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A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can get…
— Tom Peters
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... Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world...
— Barney Kessel
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There is nothing finer in history than Thomas at Chickamauga.
— Unknown Author
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All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.
— Jacques Pepin
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Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.
— Henry Ford
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They [Republicans] say, 'You're too conservative.' Was Thomas Jefferson too conservative? I'm tired of some people calling me wacky.
— Sharron Angle
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Succinct, thorough, and masterfully researched-Thomas Medvetz has written a subtle and timely history of these fixtures of public debate in the United States. In the…
— Unknown Author
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Is beauty a reminder of something we once knew, with poetry one of its vehicles? Does it give us a brief vision of that 'rarely…
— Patricia K Page
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Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more…
— Napoleon Hill
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I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant
— Anita Hill
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In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since
— Anita Hill
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Thomas Stanley has not only found no correlation between success in school and an ability to accumulate wealth, he's actually found a negative correlation. 'It…
— Richard Farson
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No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision and zest of Thomas Szasz.
— John Leo
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I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was amnesia. Although my…
— Tom Hayden
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How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine…
— Burl Ives
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